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Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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While we can be pretty confident that Reddit has its own motivations (i.e. self-interest) for fighting these lawsuits, this is still a good news story for pirates.

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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago

He's probably talking about reddit They no longer allow vpn's or any user obfuscators to browse the site

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

No they don't. I use the site with a VPN often and it generally works

[-] Salix@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Are you logged in? I can't access Reddit with a VPN if I'm not logged in

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

replace 'www' with 'old' in the address and it's fixed.

[-] Salix@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks! Confirmed that it works with old reddit, just doesn't work at all for me using regular new layout, which sucks anyway.

[-] denhil@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

I can access old.reddit.com with VPN. The new shitty layout will block you but there are browser extensions to automatically redirect. I'm never logged in since I deleted my accounts a few months ago.

[-] Salix@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks! Confirmed that it works with old reddit, just doesn't work at all for me using regular new layout, which sucks anyway.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I've been using a VPN with an account recently. Works fine.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Yes they do. The block is intermittent on Reddit, but it does occur frequently enough to be obvious they are trying to keep their user dta drsgnet uninterrupted under the guise of "stopping bots".

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

No lmao, I tried to upvote his comment and Thunder spat out that error. A few subs have started doing that (or it's instance-wide but only for certain VPN servers) in the last week or so.

[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

instagram definitely does this, reddit seems fine for me so far

[-] Cinner@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Reddit blocks access to all major VPN services (on desktop for sure) when they click a link from a search engine (maybe even navigating directly to it but I don't do that). This has been happening for about a month now. There's a specific page it shows that basically says "come back without a VPN."

I don't think it does it if you're logged in and have cookies enabled.

Caveat: there is a simple way to bypass it, I'll let you old.heads figure that one out.