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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Browsing reddit while using a VPN is verboten.

Good grief I despise that smug, winking snoo with a effing fedora that goes along with the error page.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah, seems like they really don't want site visits or something! oh well, its cooler here.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Untraceable visitors are worth nothing. From a cynical point of view, better off without them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

A lot of reddit's most popular content is stuff like TrueOffMyChest from throwaway accounts. Robust privacy protection would result in more of those posts, and more traffic overall, but reddit doesn't care about making the site work, they've dedicated themselves to milking the individual users for all they're worth. It's a bit like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Because look, now we're all here, generating content on a competing platform

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

woah there pardner!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Better than me getting shadow banned from reddit for using one, I appealed back then

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

first time? I was banned from reddit entirely 8 times

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Were you banned or shadow banned?

I was only shadow banned once, however never banned normally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

most of the times i got notified of the ban.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

wut? I VPN all the time (for niche stuff Lemmy's not there yet with).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I could’ve written a Tailscale App Connector to route it through the home connection, but I ended up blocking their domains outright and writing some CSS rules to hide Reddit from SearXNG results. It’s better than that annoying page.