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When you dunk so hard they have to ban the entire block from even seeing the site.
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this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
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I believe this is a measure to prevent primitive web crawlers from accessing the site's content, though you can just specify the user agent with curl anyways and easily spoof a Chrome browser, so I'm not sure what it's supposed to accomplish.
I'm sure a security contractor billed Reddit into the mid-six figures to set up that particular component of traffic filtering. So... uh... job creation?
It's part of how they fingerprint the browsers to track a user's identity on alt accounts and ban them. You used to be able to fool their system by changing the useragent to make and use new accounts without getting autobanned, but now they're trying to stop that.