Reddit now blocks signed out VPN connections.

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• EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Brave gives a randomized fingerprint when you set the fingerprint blocking to strict. Set the adblocking to strict too, and use adguard for desktop to spoof your user agent to the most common chrome on windows user agent you can find.

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On each page load, Reddit pings home with some of your browser stats, including your user agent. You can’t block it (easily) because it randomly uses real API endpoints for the ping, for example it will ping to /api/comment which is used to post comments so if you block that you can’t post…

    What I’m getting at is, they must be collecting that data for something, and doing it this way is obviously an attempt to fingerprint.

    Oh and if you’re using multiple accounts in the same browser without containers/incognito/profiles then they know about it, they keep data on the browser about all of them and send it to the server so it can correlate them.

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    • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Like I said, I used another instance of my browser in a different sandbox. None of the data from my usual instance was there.

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    • crackajack@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Would using Tor prevent fingerprinting or at least minimise the collection of data? I log in to Reddit by Tor nowadays.

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• mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Didn’t they have a similar glitch not too long ago?

  windowsreport.com/reddit-user-agent-error/

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  • qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That glitch didn’t explicitly say using a VPN this one says to stop using a VPN

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  • schmidtster@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That doesn’t have the bit about VPNs and if it’s happening multiple times, probably not a “glitch” and they are testing the waters.

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just replace “www” with “old”. I just use a Firefox addon that does that automatically after seeing that nonsense the other day.

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• Kolli@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I circumvent it with Tor Browser (Alpha) on my android mobile.

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• CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doesn’t Reddit have a version for Tor? Seems strange

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  • Aatube@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    does it still work?

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    • Kolli@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tor works.

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• mojo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Works for me

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