I hate the modern web

I read this as "we don't want you, the user, to interact with our 100% user-content driven website that depends on your presence to keep having value".

Dogshit website anyway.

At some point, the mistake was using Reddit to begin with.
- It was the only search result relevant to my query.
  
  Does anyone else remember back in the early days of the internet when experts used to say, "The internet routes around problems".
  I miss those early days.
  To @daggermoon@lemmy.world , I see that a lot with searches now too but I just keep searching or find some other way around the problem. There's no way I click in to Reddit any more. You do you, but I'm saying there's always another option.
  
  It was the only search result relevant to my query.
  Paste it into archive.org's Wayback Machine. Good odds that they've stored a copy. I'd do it for you and just link to the page, but you don't list the URL...
  https://web.archive.org/
  
  That’s the problem isn’t it? We used to have forums where people discus things and blogs where people share what they’ve learned, now it is all Reddit and discord and absolute trash in between.
  
  idk lately ive had more help outside it on random forums, just dont add reddit to your search, like reddit advice used to be s tier now its c tier, when you compare results from advice you get off other forums, a lot of shills, everywhere, like the webhosting related subreddits
- This is not a Reddit problem. A lot of websites throw a fucking hissy fit if you have a VPN turned on, and I'm also over it.
  
  There's a good reason for that, VPNs are extensively used by bot networks for all kinds of activity. But VPN use by bots is actually coming down slowly as bot networks start to switch to residential mobile networks - it's impossible to block them and you can cycle connections automatically like you do with VPN when using specialised residential mobile IP providers. So maybe web sites will stop blocking VPNs in a few years.

The fedora tells you everything.
- I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

STOP GOING TO REDDIT!!!!
I can't believe how often I have to say this.
- There are a few communities on Reddit that aren’t represented on here. So I still go to Reddit some.
  
  There might be very niche communities but Lemmy has grown so much in the last year. I would encourage you to search for whatever community you are looking for. You might not find the exact equivalent but you might find a good match.
  For example, there may be a /r/3dprinteddildos on reddit but that won't exist here. But I am sure that the 3D community here can point you in the right direction.
  Keep in mind how subreddit often got created: when the general community doesn't provide enough content for your niche, the niche community is developed.
  /r/gonewild is a great example of this. It went from amateur porn to a cestpool of only fans content. Other subreddits were created to continue the way.
  It's the same thing here: find a community that's close and post.
- I've stopped casually browsing Reddit but sometimes it's the only way to get somewhat decent search results
- I’m trying to convince people to check out Lemmy but it’s hard. People are so stuck in their ways. I’ll keep trying though
  
  People are still on X even after their owner gave a Nazi salute on national television.
- I’m weaning myself off it. Sadly there’s some communities that I’m active in on Reddit that either don’t exist on a federated platform or are so tiny that they’re functionally dead. Hopefully we can grow those communities though - if we want to preserve the internet and our democracies into the future, the cancer that is big tech needs viable alternatives.
- The sad part is I still have a lot of random subs I enjoy, fringe stuff like r/OnionLovers and r/slowcooking, r/frugal.. and subs like r/frugal immediately delete any comment that brings up politics in any way, so there are a few decent subs left with non-batshit insane mods but they are becoming exceedingly rare.
- It's an addiction, it's hard to break.
  
  It is.. i have lots of shows i watch with communities im an engaged with.. and thats not really here yet.. but bluesky has helped me get off reddit more.. i actually like the platform and lemmy
  
  It is. What helped me was deleting my account and removing my patched boost app. Now I only browse it through mobile Firefox with ublock.
  It's annoying as shit to use, so I don't use it often. But when I do they get nothing from me. Win-win.
- Lemmy is not grown yet,so yeah i'm forced to use reddit.

that's on you for preventing the billion dollar company from tracking your every move ;)
- It's hilarious that you made me curious enough to look up RDDT's stock price today, down 9% today alone lol, -31% in the last 30 days. A third of their stock value lost in the past month, very impressive.

I wish there was a way to filter all sites that block me like this, at least my search would actually show results I can read
- Sometimes part of the content can be seen in the search result page, as the crawler got the content. But when you click inside, you're blocked by the membership wall. Irony?

When google started to index paywalled things.... I thought that was pretty evil. Showing google content but not normal internet users. Giving sites the ability to have their cake and eat it too.
When reddit decided to force logging in to see some subreddits on mobile, I decided they were evil.
This is why I'm on Lemmy posting content, we have to use open platforms if we want them to succeed. This is the first time I've used social media. I'm doing it as a civic duty
- When google started to index paywalled things…
  Google has (had?) a rule. If a site lets them index their paywalled content, then the site must deliver the full content if the referrer is google.com or else they will de-index the site. So when clicking a link on google, the full article should appear. It was an old trick to just google the article title to find a link and click through to read a paywalled article.
  Is that policy gone now?
  
  as far as i can tell that policy never existed. The first instance of this was for academic articles being indexed behind a paywall, and they NEVER worked with the referrer being google.

I consider this more of a feature than a bug.

Me too. I wrote a blog post about it with a similar title and would love some feedback. I'm sure it could be expanded even more to include stuff like this.
- Nice blog you have there. I appreciate the content and will be passing it around a bit.
  
  Appreciate that. Got a backlog of 200+ topics I still need to write about, so little by little.
- I wouldn't expand it any further, as it already covers most of the important stuff. Far more people have to deal with Google's bs than use R*ddit.
  
  Fair enough. Sometimes it can make a difference though (speaking someone's specific platform language). But yeah, I get it.

How's the search engine supposed to know you're blocked from Reddit?
- Good point, Reddit is the real problem.
  
  "THE MACHINE KNOWS"

It did not used to be this way. Every website result used to be "cached", but not anymore...
Enshittification 😔

Well, fine with me. Closing one tab is no big deal, let the website die

I always get that screen when I forget to turn off my VPN while accessing a reddit quote.
- You should get a better VPN. Mine only gives me this rarely, often when I'm using a node that I can assume is where a bunch of prime would use to run bots.
  
  I like Mullvad. Probably the only reason I get the error is there's one country that's a fav, but some sites don't like it because of its privacy restrictions ... which ofc is why it's my fav.

file a ticket.
You have been permanatley banned from Reddit. if you feel this was a mistake, please use the appeal process
- Yeah, I questioned the second and third temp bans they gave me. After the last (so, the third) they banned me. I suspect it's because I was asking.
  Their reasons of course were bullshit, for every single ban (which they confirmed were correctly issued... Morons).

Reddit
🤢🤮
- I'm on my 5th permban now I think. Some of them were because I logged in with an alt on the same IP by mistake so they flagged it and banned those too. I didn't violate any ToS, they just didn't agree because (I asked ChatGPT to summarize the behavior of reddit mods/admins):
  Woke Authoritarianism
  This refers to the enforcement of progressive or "woke" ideology through authoritarian means, such as:
  Censorship of dissenting views
  Cancel culture (public shaming and professional consequences for opposing opinions)
  De-platforming (banning people from social media or public forums)
  Forced ideological conformity (e.g., requiring adherence to specific beliefs in workplaces or academia)
  Thought Policing
  This term comes from George Orwell's 1984 and refers to the control and regulation of people's thoughts, often through fear, social pressure, or punishment for wrongthink. In the modern context, it can include:
  Policing language to ensure ideological purity
  Monitoring people’s statements (even from the past) to punish deviation
  Enforcing conformity through intimidation, cancelation, or ostracization
  And a followup response:
  Authoritarian Leftism – When left-wing ideology is enforced through censorship, suppression of dissent, and ideological purity tests.
  Neoprogressivism / Woke Authoritarianism – Some critics use these terms to describe far-left movements that use de-platforming, cancel culture, and corporate-enforced speech restrictions to control discourse.
  Cultural Marxism (controversial term) – Some argue that elements of Marxist thought, particularly in cultural institutions, are used to enforce ideological dominance. However, this term is often misused or overgeneralized.
  Techno-Authoritarianism – When social media platforms and tech companies enforce ideological conformity through bans, shadowbanning, and algorithmic control.
  Soft Totalitarianism (coined by Rod Dreher) – Unlike classic totalitarianism (which uses force and violence), this is a modern, decentralized form of control through social shaming, cancel culture, and corporate censorship.
  ChatGPT seems to have hit the nail on the head, I didn't even know "Woke Authoritarianism" was an actual term.
  
  Err what?

Just putting this out there, if you use startpage you can use the anonymous view feature to get around this :) Obviously avoiding reddit is better but if it's the only available resource...

At least they told you you're blocked, instead of just making random parts of it not work with zero communication

I was surprised when I found out that reuters.com blocks mullvad vpn.
- Their loss
- Just switch servers once or twice, usually works for me.
  
  I use archive.is if I really need to read one of their articles. My point is, it is strange that they block read-only access like that.
- Interesting that a news site would block a VPN.
  
  Bots use VPNs a lot for scrapping and other activities.
  
  Interesting that you consider reddit a news site.
- They likely just use a block list.
  If a not was using the vpn server you connected to then it ends up on the list for a few days.

safereddit.com baby!
There's a firefox plugin that can translate to free frontend links and you could do that as well through pihole.
- What's the Firefox plugin?
  
  My bad: https://libredirect.github.io/
- Can’t believe I forgot about this. Lurking is so much better from there.

File a ticket!

That happens on some VPNs
- "shouldn't happen all the time on VPNs
  Safety and privacy for companies, but not for users. Just because it is, doesn't mean it has to, or even should be.
  
  It happens more often than not with Mullvad.
  
  The issue with a VPN is that it's likely that other people using the same exit node are doing something malicious. A site like reddit or a bank or whatever sees a lot of attacks coming from one IP (or a range of IPs) and mark it as malicious.
  You'd likely do the same thing with your own site - something like Denyhosts or Crowdsec that blocks people trying to brute force a password will end up blocking anyone else using that same VPN exit IP.
- It happens all the time with me, I see it as a blessing.

Just use a different vpn server...
- Using a VPN to log into reddit can get your account shadowbanned instantly. Just an FYI to those browsing.
  What's worse is it's infectious. If you log into your main account on a VPN, get shadowbanned and change accounts without clearing your history, changing IP and deleting all your cookies, your next account will also get immediately shadowbanned.
  If you argue about politics, shadowban. If you make too many reports, shadowban. If you do anything on reddit that isn't the most milquetoast, bot-like comments on media and celebrities, you will likely get banned or shadowbanned.
  The place is overrun with very convincing AI bots that even go as far as criticizing reddit to look convincing, but a large portion of users aren't even real anymore, maybe as high as half in some communities by my reckoning.
  They don't want human users anymore. They announced a few years ago they were using reddit as a "test bed" for new AI models, they want a site that millions of people visit every day that looks like a social media site where users can communicate, but they want to be able to control what everyone is saying and discussing with a control panel to influence public sentiment with ease, and it's already working to fantastic effect.
  Edit: most normal, commercial internet users can reset their dynamic IP address simply by unplugging your router for a minute. Also, if you try to register a reddit account with a "throwaway" email, or even many major domains like yahoo or msn, it can start you out shadowbanned permanently. They are looking for any excuse to silence users so their bots can control the popular narrative.
  
  In my experience the bans have been very explicit, strangely designed to humiliate. Otherwise the same.
  My "threatening violence" comment was "Elon Musk's fumes are fatally toxic". Permabanned from 4 subreddits and 3 day site wide, just that exact string.
  Amazingly it appears like a pro left wing website. That is some wonderful camouflage.
  
  Just for a tack on to this everybody needs to be aware of contentcyborg.ai
  Nothing digital is real. Digital reality is a distraction. They burned the libraries.
  
  I posted stuff about politics and my account suddenly couldn't comment. Weird error messages, no actual communication from Reddit about what or why or how long. Decisions about functionality are being made in meetings by people who are absolutely not interested in the users as anything but things whose only value is whether they can be monetized.
- None of Mullvad's have ever worked for Reddit for me in years.
  
  Fucking vpn blocking cowards.
  
  Ireland works fine here. Dunno about the shadowban, I still get answers on the occasional thread I create whenever I can't get an answer on Lemmy. Still, fuck u/spez.
- For what it's worth I use PIA and have never been shadowbanned or banned using any endpoint in any country on new accounts there. I use throwaway non-gmail email accounts to segment each account so they can't track between them, all on different VPN endpoints per account. It's sad that this is what it takes to prevent them from stalking me.

That is an easy way to make less traffic from people that don't really care. When I see it, I close the page and look for the next result.
If you really need to know what is written there I guess you can Log in or use redlib or something like that.
- This is the reason I never had a twitter account. Why would I bother making an account if I don't know why I would want one in the first place?
- When that happens I use the summarize with AI feature from Kagi and it does a good job describing the page.

Sounds like a you problem
closes ticket

Yep, i get the same thing
Youtube also blocks me in a similar way.
- For vpn use? Or what else?
  
  Using a firefox fork browser and sometimes a vpn.
  
  I get that from searches on ddg, no vpn.
  RDX still works, it the only way I can search reddit now

M'lady
- I'd love to punt that smug fedora wearing fuck
  
  You know a site is good when its mascot makes you feel intense uncontrollable rage deep in your soul.

I love how every website leans on JavaScript as a crutch.
Wait. No I don't.

Happens to me all the time on a VPN.
It isn't every IP. I just change tunnels.

Spez deserves to be slapped
- Spez deserves to be Luigi'd
  
  Careful! That almost sounds like promoting violence, and that won't fly with our advertisers! You have to say, uh, Spez deserves to be unalived.

I just found a Firefox extension that let's you open these blocked pages in archive. Pretty excited to bypass the bs of VPN blocks
- Web archives

https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit-instances/blob/master/instances.md < for me it works if I search the post link on one of these

Thankfully Redlib exists.
- This sometimes also helps when I need a result from reddit: https://github.com/corenting/eddrit
- Thank you, I love you!

Kinda like when google news shows links to paywalled articles.
- Yes, that's exactly how I feel.

What does the search engine have to do with your reddit account/vpn?
- they're showing the links, but you can't access them.
  It is the fault of the site being dicks, but the search engines make the problem more annoying
  
  Did you call the search engine and tell them you were banned from that one site?

This, primarily, is the reason I am paying for Kagi. It allows you to hide shit sites, AKA reddit from search results.
- Sad part is I find a lot of helpful random material (information about cellphone providers, accounts, all sorts of random edge cases in different domains) and still want to look at the threads, and find a lot of help that way. So I just switch to a VM that's on a VPN just to check those. Sucks but some information doesn't exist anywhere else.

"Choose your cookie preferences to continue"

I get this too from time to time and usually refreshing my VPN fixes it. This is a bug of somekind.
- I get the same screen anytime I use any VPN server.

STOP GOING TO REDDIT!!!!