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Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] sus@programming.dev 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] squeakycat@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I imagine old.reddit is going to be killed off soon.