The VPN block presumably exists to discourage people from voting manipulation, ban evasion, et cetera, but you can’t do any of those things when not logged in.

Is it just a british thing? Is this the government trying to block kids from seeing NSFW stuff? Because in that case it still isn’t doing its job - you can’t see NSFW reddit posts when logged out and you appear as not british on a vpn so you don’t need to verify age.

Sorry, i’m just incredibly frustrated because i’m stuck in a cycle of:

  • google something,
  • the top result is reddit
  • can’t see it because of VPN
  • have to use Sharklasers.com to make a Shadowbanned account or turn off my VPN
  • qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    It’s not just a british thing. I find that reddit blocks VPNs but not tor exit nodes, they even have a .onion website.

    https://www.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion/

    I’ve set up a private redlib instance that routes all traffic through tor and I have a browser extension that redirects all reddit links to my server. If you have a vps/home server this is a very seamless setup or you can use one of many public redlib instances or browse through tor directly.