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I don't get it, are they blocking access without login in general? Or is this because the traffic was in fact somehow suspicious? Or is this to prevent data harvesting?
I got this while on a VPN, I'd assume reddit is trying to accomplish:
- Blocking malicious attempts from anonymous Ips
- Blocking Data Scraping
- Forcing users to divulge their ip information for tracking purposes.
Definitely trying to stop scraping, because they are trying to sell their data for AI training purposes.
That dataset is gonna be scary if they don't filter it out a ton.
Future AIs will seek training data from Reddit only to find that they might as well have just asked chatGPT for training data because Reddit uses that to try to get real person engagement and some business major figures they have so many AI generated posts so why not just sell those?
Using VPN is necessary for some I think, if they live in Iran or in general if they are atheists in a muslim country.
So I don't think VPN in itself should be enough.It's presumably "okay" under those circumstances to force a login.
This appears to only be enforced if you aren't logged into an account.
Yes, the rare occasions in which I have to stoop to click a reddit link on VPN, I used to get the 'woah there partner!' or whatever version, but now they have this instead lol.
Just click a button and get a new VPN server nearby the old one and boom, no more block.
Fuck you spez
Or use a redirect to libreddit extension...
Blocking Data Scraping
They need to keep all that data for themselves so that they can sell it.
Probably blocking users on VPN who are not logged in, or some IP blocking like that.
It is definitely this. "You're not profilable, how do you expect us to sell you to advertisers?"
I was running a web browser on an azure VM and clicked a reddit link in my search results only to see this page.
I'm not logging into my personal reddit account at work (or creating a work reddit account) so I just found my information elsewhere.
They block my hurricane electric ipv6 tunnel too.
Do what, now?