13617@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoReddit now blocks signed out VPN connections.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square202linkfedilinkarrow-up11.13Karrow-down159
arrow-up11.07Karrow-down1imageReddit now blocks signed out VPN connections.lemmy.world13617@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square202linkfedilink
minus-squaresus@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·edit-22 years agoConsidering it took this long for them to figure out “empty user agent means it is a bot” and “well-known vpn may be used by bots”, and old.reddit still apparently bypassing this, I’m going to guess they are not going to have much success.
minus-squaresqueakycat@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoI imagine old.reddit is going to be killed off soon.
Considering it took this long for them to figure out “empty user agent means it is a bot” and “well-known vpn may be used by bots”, and old.reddit still apparently bypassing this, I’m going to guess they are not going to have much success.
I imagine old.reddit is going to be killed off soon.