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Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections.
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this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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Wtf are they doing?
They are trying to force researchers and other data grabbers onto the API. If people can scrape the website Reddit can't charge them
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.
I imagine old.reddit is going to be killed off soon.