I feel like everyone keeps forgetting that Reddit not only needs our metadata, but so much so in fact, that they need us to be able to bypass their own censorship in order to reach their servers, and to do so in the most anonymous way possible and without requiring their scripts to run in our browsers:
This is nothing new, hence why they literally call it old. I can remember all the way back in nineteen ninety eight, when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plummeted sisxteen feet through an announcer's table.
I use a VPN all the time primarily because I don't like the idea of being a data point for profit.
An ad tracking company can determine your approximate location based on your IP address. They may also be able to identify your Internet Service Provider (ISP), device type, operating system, and browser information. Some companies might even use more advanced techniques like geolocation or machine learning algorithms to infer additional details about you, such as language preferences or demographic information. However, it's important to note that not all tracking methods are accurate, and privacy concerns exist due to potential misuse of this data.
I don't get it, are they blocking access without login in general? Or is this because the traffic was in fact somehow suspicious? Or is this to prevent data harvesting?
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?
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.
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.
