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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"bad code change" describes pretty much every vide change they've done over the past 7ish years lol
I also don't believe them. This was a test.
Or it was just a bug. You know, the thing that happens literally all the time in every codebase in the world
Maybe, but this is exactly the sort of thing I would expect them to do a test run for. They are desperate to stop ad-blocking.
Tests and QA don't catch everything. From what I can tell this affects a small percent of users, so it's very likely that it slipped through any testing that was done if that's the case