While we can be pretty confident that Reddit has its own motivations (i.e. self-interest) for fighting these lawsuits, this is still a good news story for pirates.

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[–] FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And this is why you VPN.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

MFW I went to upvote but couldn't because "error: VPN blocked" 😑

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Huh, I exclusively browse Lemmy through a VPN and I've never seen that one.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He's probably talking about reddit They no longer allow vpn's or any user obfuscators to browse the site

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

No lmao, I tried to upvote his comment and Thunder spat out that error. A few subs have started doing that (or it's instance-wide but only for certain VPN servers) in the last week or so.

[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

instagram definitely does this, reddit seems fine for me so far

[–] Cinner@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Reddit blocks access to all major VPN services (on desktop for sure) when they click a link from a search engine (maybe even navigating directly to it but I don't do that). This has been happening for about a month now. There's a specific page it shows that basically says "come back without a VPN."

I don't think it does it if you're logged in and have cookies enabled.

Caveat: there is a simple way to bypass it, I'll let you old.heads figure that one out.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

The block is intermittent on Reddit, but it does occur.

[–] parachaye@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That would probably be because your instance is different. Lemmy.world has recently blocked VPN traffic apparently because of bad actors uploading CSAM behind VPN. I also had issues with Lemmy with my VPN this week and either need to split tunnel or need to browse Lemmy as view-only.

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Those bad actors are really stupid, a VPN isn't going to protect them. You're not magically anonymous behind a VPN, and such material is obviously going to attract the attention of very skilled cyber security experts & law enforcements.
Idiots doing crimes never understand basic OpSec.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That doesn't help instance admins at all, though.

[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It helps admins help you stay anonymous by relieving them from having to cover for you.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I am not going to thank the unpaid volunteers who make the fediverse possible by getting them C&D letters/legal threats.

[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 1 points 2 years ago

Well I appreciate that. But simply discussing piracy should be okay.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Not really, though. If they're ordered to turn over IPs, they'll turn over IPs. Whether those are legit or VPN IPs is another story, but the burden placed on the instance admin doesn't really change much.