Reddit has become the face of enshittification
I just wanted to peek at the front page. I guess they don't want people to use their shit anymore. I'm starting to believe in the dead internet theory.
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I just wanted to peek at the front page. I guess they don't want people to use their shit anymore. I'm starting to believe in the dead internet theory.
Lol yeah I can't get on it at work anymore. Goodbye to all the traffic they get from people looking for tech advice on corporate networks. Fucking morons.
My work is also banned due to “suspicious” activity.
They're banning VPNs. I have no idea why, but reddit is unusable at this point.
It could be a simple way to prevent bots which clearly isn’t working, or perhaps users who reveal their IP address are worth more to advertisers.
I suspect they're able to track a lot of they have your IP address.
Don't they have an onion site?
So people training their AI models have to pay them instead of scraping them for free. Got to make those share holders happy, right? Even if it goes against its own founding ideals.
i've never had an office job but it's extremely obnoxious they seem to regularly filter the internet like you're in school. there were so so many important resources (including youtube) which had legitimate educational and technical value they'd take away as some bullshit austerity ritual
A shame you had lame tech Bros at your job. Ive had a couple office jobs and they both restricted a ton of stuff but they left reddit open.
Undercover MSoutlook browsing
That isn’t the issue here. I agree with you, but in this case the filter is on Reddit's side. It is common and justifiable for corporate machines to use a vpn. Sometimes public traffic doesn’t go through, but not always.