For a while Reddit dot com has been blocking my browser since I use a VPN, but old reddit was still functional for me. Although I closed my reddit account just after the API-exodus, I still frequent the niche communities which has hyper-specific topics discussed.

Found to my surprise today that they are now blocking old reddit as well if I use a VPN.

Never thought that [old].[reddit].[com] would one day show that f’kin “Whoa there Pardner” page.

Fuck you spez. Really, fuck you.

  • BlueKey
    126•3 months ago

    Which brings me to boil is that they use ‘pardner’.
    I’m not your pardner in any way. I just wanted to read an aswer in my search results for a quite specific question.

    Every time I read this ‘whoa there, pardner’ I want to scream at my screen that they should shut the fuck up.

  • @[email protected]
    54•3 months ago

    They’ve been intermittently blocking anyone with a VPN or any sort of other obfuscated connection. With the IPO finally out, the pressure is now on to milk every possible cent from the site, makes sense they’d go to 100% block now.

    A user who browses without providing a complete, intimate user data profile for advertising is literally worth less to reddit than a user that doesn’t use the site.

  • BoozillaEnglish
    51•3 months ago

    Same thing happened to me, and I have a dedicated IP with my VPN. Really pissed me off.

    Then I thought, wait, what the shit am I doing on reddit anyway? Reddit sucks assballs.

  • @[email protected]
    33•3 months ago

    Wow, thats actually a pretty big deal. Maybe we can get a few more posters here for reddits bad calls.

    • @[email protected]
      23•3 months ago

      If you are logged in and on a VPN it works, if you’re not logged in and on a VPN it doesn’t anymore. This started happening to me about 5 days ago as well.

      • Hyperreality
        11•3 months ago

        Not logged in, still works for me.

        Consider changing your ip/location.

        • @[email protected]
          6•3 months ago

          Ditto, not logged in, incognito (so no cookies/history, I know it’s not actually incognito), VPN exiting in Canada. old.reddit working fine.

          Could also be a staggered rollout thing? VPN/endpoint dependent while they gather data on endpoints?

  • @[email protected]
    15•3 months ago

    I was wondering why I kept getting this error message the other day when trying to get some context on a technical project at work. I didn’t want to believe it. I’m saddened by the end of an era, probably the same way the last few users on Digg felt. Everything sucks…

  • kn0wmad1cEnglish
    14•3 months ago

    Started happening for me too. Reddit can pry my data out from my vpn’s cold, dead fingers.

  • @[email protected]
    13•3 months ago

    Gotta play the vpn whack-a-moke game if ya wanna keep using old. Changing your exit location a few times usually gets ya in, for a while

  • @[email protected]
    11•3 months ago

    Not sure what VPN you’re using, but I found that PIA is blocked, but Proton isn’t, as of last week anyway, something could have changed.

      • @[email protected]
        6•3 months ago

        I have mullvad and also browse certain Reddit communities without an account. Some of the servers still get through. If you’re using US servers I know there are a few of the NY, Atlanta, and Virginia servers I’ve been able to get through on. I’ve also gotten through on some of the West Coast ones but I can’t remember which ones, I only remember the last 3 because they were the last ones I trial and error throughed while actually paying attention to which servers I was connecting to instead of picking at random.

    • @MrPibb
      3•3 months ago

      Surfshark doesn’t seem to be either.

    • @[email protected]
      2•3 months ago

      on ExpressVPN many servers are blocked but if you pick a smaller country like Luxembourg it can work

    • @[email protected]
      12•3 months ago

      if your engine supports Boolean Search, you could try “-reddit.com” after your search without the quotes.