For a while Reddit dot com has been blocking my browser since I use a VPN, but old reddit was still functional for me. Although I closed my reddit account just after the API-exodus, I still frequent the niche communities which has hyper-specific topics discussed.
Found to my surprise today that they are now blocking old reddit as well if I use a VPN.
Never thought that [old].[reddit].[com] would one day show that f’kin “Whoa there Pardner” page.
Fuck you spez. Really, fuck you.
Which brings me to boil is that they use ‘pardner’.
I’m not your pardner in any way. I just wanted to read an aswer in my search results for a quite specific question.
Every time I read this ‘whoa there, pardner’ I want to scream at my screen that they should shut the fuck up.
I’m not your pardner, buddy.
They’ve been intermittently blocking anyone with a VPN or any sort of other obfuscated connection. With the IPO finally out, the pressure is now on to milk every possible cent from the site, makes sense they’d go to 100% block now.
A user who browses without providing a complete, intimate user data profile for advertising is literally worth less to reddit than a user that doesn’t use the site.
Same thing happened to me, and I have a dedicated IP with my VPN. Really pissed me off.
Then I thought, wait, what the shit am I doing on reddit anyway? Reddit sucks assballs.
Wow, thats actually a pretty big deal. Maybe we can get a few more posters here for reddits bad calls.
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