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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

They started also blocking OLD.reddit.com this week. I made a comment a couple months ago alluding to old.reddit.com still working even though they were blocking tor and known VPNs on www.reddit.com. I'm sure about 10,000 other people figured it out at the same time as me, since it was such a simple bypass, and I'm surprised it took this long to fix.

There are still at least 2 other unpatched ways.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

old.reddit.com is the only Reddit website I use. I have every reddit link automatically redirect to that website as well. I haven't been able to access old.reddit.com for months on most servers of 3 different VPNs I've used.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I have the same experience, but mostly from VPN servers located in Singapore. They're all blocked, or protected by some Cloudflare CAPTCHAS that seem to be much harder to pass than those of the early 2010s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It’s definitely been a thing for more than just a week. I saw a post complaining about this on old Reddit months ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can someone tell me how they would know if someone uses a VPN to access their site? I believe OpenVPN has a way to make traffic look like normal HTTPS traffic

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's not about anti-censorship (making your VPN traffic look like regular traffic) it's about the IP address at the end of the VPN connection. They have a list of known VPN provider IP ranges and block those. If you run a proxy server or VPN on a your own private VPS for example, then it won't be detected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Ah, that's great to know. Thanks