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While we can be pretty confident that Reddit has its own motivations (i.e. self-interest) for fighting these lawsuits, this is still a good news story for pirates.

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[–] Hubi@feddit.de 21 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Huh, I exclusively browse Lemmy through a VPN and I've never seen that one.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 months ago (12 children)

He's probably talking about reddit They no longer allow vpn's or any user obfuscators to browse the site

[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

instagram definitely does this, reddit seems fine for me so far

[–] Cinner@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Reddit blocks access to all major VPN services (on desktop for sure) when they click a link from a search engine (maybe even navigating directly to it but I don't do that). This has been happening for about a month now. There's a specific page it shows that basically says "come back without a VPN."

I don't think it does it if you're logged in and have cookies enabled.

Caveat: there is a simple way to bypass it, I'll let you old.heads figure that one out.

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