Reddit is blocking users based on user agents?
Started to get this message when accessing Reddit. I use LibreWolf as a browser, which does indeed provide a more generic user agent to combat fingerprinting, but nothing out of the ordinary either (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0). Anyone else experiencing this?
Edit: seems to have resolved itself. Thanks for confirming I wasn't doing anything wrong. Let's hope this isn't some new algorithm to test if for insufficient fingerprinting so Reddit can kick ad-resistant users.
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Reddit is corrupt. It probably has something to do with them wanting to track you, and they can't track you if you have a blank user agent.
Stay here at Lemmy where humans are respected as humans instead of data mines. Life is more dignified here at Lemmy.
I saw a post a few days ago where one Lemmy user threatened to triangulate another user via IP, and then hurt them, because they said Linux doesn't work out of the box as well as windows in their experience.
This was on a main instance. The person didn't get in any trouble.
Did you report the comment?
Yikes. That's concerning.
Was it a shit post? Don't mistake me as being dismissive of threats, it's just that "triangulate based on IP" sounds like a joke.
No, unfortunately. The guy seemed really mad. Calling the other guy a moron, idiot, and telling him to apologise. From what I could see from the comments, it seems like the one guy visited the angry guys website, and the guy threatened to use his IP to find out where he lived. Then used threats about how it's nice to sleep at night without fear, and that if you piss the wrong people off you'll know.
All because the guy was having Linux issues and said windows worked better for them. I only found the thread because I'm also having the same issues lol.
That's a massive yikes. Be sure to report shit like that.
The mad guy sounds tech illiterate anyway. Nowadays you can't track people by IP anymore. Sure you get a city, maybe a city district and then what?
To prove my point, here's where my IP (Without VPN) will tell you where I live: Berlin. I live on the other side of the country compared to Berlin.
These scriptkiddies are so pathetic .
Yo Pop OS is working ony Surface pro 3 perfectly basically, definitely better than Windows 10 was.
But Linux DOES require more effort to set up than Windows. Who in the hell would deny that?
Yeah, Lemmy is full of shit heads and mods/admins rarely care. You can also see plenty of misogyny, non stop verbal abuse, etc. Lemmy is basically a playground for 13 year olds with development difficulties.
I'm just going to highlight these two sentences, and ask you think really really hard about why this comment has more downvotes than upvotes.
Maybe they think that saying "development difficulties" means it isn't verbally abusive? lol
That's all well and good but now that the smoke cleared it's a Twitter/Mastodon situation
Yeah. You're not wrong.
Ever since I discovered I can have infinite conversations with infinite people about infinite topics, I am addicted to this format.
Now see how they exploit us 😡
I'm my golden socialist utopia online platforms would flourish freely with each new conversation.
I don't quite understand what you mean. I know Twitter has kind of gone to hell, but beyond that I'm not sure.
I think his point was that most conversations happen where people are, and people are still more on Twitter than Mastodon by multiple orders of magnitude even after the "exodus".
I like the sentiment, but it is so incredibly naive to think that there aren't crawlers scraping every ounce of data from Lemmy as possible. While Lemmy itself may not be collecting user data (depending on who is hosting your home instances of choice), other data that is valuable can still be collected, particularly for LLM AI.
If you can access it, the data scrapers have already crawled it.
Especially considering the post from a little while ago showing that admins of Lemmy instances can see what individual users are upvoting and downvoting. There's nothing to stop a bad actor from setting up an instance and just harvesting data.
Everyone can see that via kbin. for example, here's your comment.
(not sure about downvotes... you might have to work a bit more to see those.)
What else can admin see?
T H E F U T U R E
Why use scraper on Lemmy when bots can federate and have the data directly sent to them?
Everything they can get from Lemmy is public and not necessarily tied to any specific person. Like I'm not actually Helen's lunch.
That's exactly what Helen's lunch would say.
That's why I just say dumb shit on here.
Just look at how Reddit uses fingerprinting, absolutely part of their tracking
They absolutely can. A blank user agent is a fingerprint like any other.