Woah there partner. We noticed we can't fingerprint you, so we're not even going to let you in. Please remove your pants, bend over, and try again.
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whoa there, pardner!
reddit's awesome and all, but you may have a bit of a problem.
Make sure your User-Agent is not empty, is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternative User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block.
You can read Reddit's Terms of Service here.
if you think that we've incorrectly blocked you or you would like to discuss easier ways to get the data you want, please contact us at this email address.
But they don't care at all about bots.
Saw the comments so I thought I would check it out. I’m getting that message as of right now, but I am running a VPN.
I think what it is is, they were probably hoping the web integrity would work originally that Google was proposing, and were probably planning to take advantage of that. However, I guess since it has not went through yet at Google that they are still using their version of it but just limiting it to empty user agents in the browser?
Other than for that reason that I wouldn't worry about someone user agent as an owner for reddit. If bots were an issue, wouldn't I issue a warning for the user to slow down and maybe temporarily block the IP or something like that?
Wasn't user agent parsing already broken with Mosaik Browser?
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