It seems to depend. If I have my location set to within the US, I can usually access the top level post without a problem, but I can't see any comments. If I set location to Europe---usually Switzerland, since they have good privacy laws--then I can't access the site at all. If I set it to old.reddit.com with location set to the US, I can see comments, except for anything that's been labelled as NSFW; those require me to log in.
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i use it with proton vpn every day because my country's incompetent slop government blocks access to it otherwise
It's been that way for years.
Grabs calendar Well hey that's when my life fell apart after they killed my puppy. -probably unrelated.
Yeah it's annoying AF to get around it, I sadly gave up and logged in.
Here I am thinking I was a controversial asshole.. nope, just a security nerd. I wonder if NordVPN's new nordwhisper protocol will circumvent some of this?
I've also wondered if they've collected hardware hashes of the actual computer beyond IPv4. Never heard of CaptchaV3.. I'll have to read up on that.
Reveddit seems to be a useful workaround but of course you'll see all the removed content as well
I just host a RedLib instance and browse every so often. Starting to use Lemmy more for actual interactions.
YouTube too
they have a tor hidden service, still seems to work.
every account I made on there got shadowbanned. I made them before they had email as a requirement
(me using a VPN and this frontend https://rdx.overdevs.com/subreddit.html?r=popular)
What's this about a block now?
Also if you block all cookies the website breaks too lol
It's not a straight up block, sometimes reddit disallows you from seeing threads when you're on a vpn, but it's not always consistent.