I noticed today, having searched about TOR nodes possibly being run by government departments in a browser, I got this message, " Your request has been blocked by network security. Please try to login with your Reddit account. " I didn’t login in the app!

Haven’t come across that before. Has anyone else seen i?

  • liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    Yeah they basically block all non-residential IPs now. Has been a thing for a while, about since they started selling their dataset for ML training.

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      I got that too following a link a friend sent. Seems they stepped up the blocking for some residential addresses now.

      Or some other reason. I stopped rummaging through that site years ago.

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
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    10 days ago

    I got that notification for the first time today as well, guessing it’s just a tactic to get people to create accounts they can data mine to sell to AI companies.

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    Thanks guys for all the replys, much appreciated. Oh well, glad I’m on Lemmy. Seems to be a world wide coordinated shift going on at the moment.

    Maybe all those people who I took the piss out of in the past for lining their homes with tin foil weren’t so wacko after all, just ahead of their time :)