13617@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoReddit now blocks signed out VPN connections.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square235fedilinkarrow-up11.21Karrow-down164
arrow-up11.15Karrow-down1imageReddit now blocks signed out VPN connections.lemmy.world13617@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square235fedilink
minus-squaresus@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·edit-211 months agoConsidering it took this long for them to figure out “empty user agent means it is a bot” and “well-known vpn may be used by bots”, and old.reddit still apparently bypassing this, I’m going to guess they are not going to have much success.
minus-squaresqueakycat@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoI imagine old.reddit is going to be killed off soon.
Considering it took this long for them to figure out “empty user agent means it is a bot” and “well-known vpn may be used by bots”, and old.reddit still apparently bypassing this, I’m going to guess they are not going to have much success.
I imagine old.reddit is going to be killed off soon.