New VPN block page.

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    7 months ago

    I got this while on a VPN, I’d assume reddit is trying to accomplish:

    • Blocking malicious attempts from anonymous Ips
    • Blocking Data Scraping
    • Forcing users to divulge their ip information for tracking purposes.
    • Pennomi@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Definitely trying to stop scraping, because they are trying to sell their data for AI training purposes.

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          7 months ago

          Future AIs will seek training data from Reddit only to find that they might as well have just asked chatGPT for training data because Reddit uses that to try to get real person engagement and some business major figures they have so many AI generated posts so why not just sell those?

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      7 months ago

      Using VPN is necessary for some I think, if they live in Iran or in general if they are atheists in a muslim country.
      So I don’t think VPN in itself should be enough.

      • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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        7 months ago

        It’s presumably “okay” under those circumstances to force a login.

        This appears to only be enforced if you aren’t logged into an account.

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      7 months ago

      Yes, the rare occasions in which I have to stoop to click a reddit link on VPN, I used to get the ‘woah there partner!’ or whatever version, but now they have this instead lol.

      Just click a button and get a new VPN server nearby the old one and boom, no more block.

      Fuck you spez