I just wanted to peek at the front page. I guess they don’t want people to use their shit anymore. I’m starting to believe in the dead internet theory.

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    My work is also banned due to “suspicious” activity.

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      They’re banning VPNs. I have no idea why, but reddit is unusable at this point.

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        It could be a simple way to prevent bots which clearly isn’t working, or perhaps users who reveal their IP address are worth more to advertisers.

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          users who reveal their IP address are worth more to advertisers.

          I suspect they’re able to track a lot of they have your IP address.

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        So people training their AI models have to pay them instead of scraping them for free. Got to make those share holders happy, right? Even if it goes against its own founding ideals.