I love how search engines display inaccessible links.
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I read this as “we don’t want you, the user, to interact with our 100% user-content driven website that depends on your presence to keep having value”.
Dogshit website anyway.
that’s on you for preventing the billion dollar company from tracking your every move ;)
It’s hilarious that you made me curious enough to look up RDDT’s stock price today, down 9% today alone lol, -31% in the last 30 days. A third of their stock value lost in the past month, very impressive.
The fedora tells you everything.
I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.
I wish there was a way to filter all sites that block me like this, at least my search would actually show results I can read
Sometimes part of the content can be seen in the search result page, as the crawler got the content. But when you click inside, you’re blocked by the membership wall. Irony?
I consider this more of a feature than a bug.
Me too. I wrote a blog post about it with a similar title and would love some feedback. I’m sure it could be expanded even more to include stuff like this.
Nice blog you have there. I appreciate the content and will be passing it around a bit.
Appreciate that. Got a backlog of 200+ topics I still need to write about, so little by little.
I wouldn’t expand it any further, as it already covers most of the important stuff. Far more people have to deal with Google’s bs than use R*ddit.
Fair enough. Sometimes it can make a difference though (speaking someone’s specific platform language). But yeah, I get it.
Well, fine with me. Closing one tab is no big deal, let the website die
> Reddit
🤢🤮
I’m on my 5th permban now I think. Some of them were because I logged in with an alt on the same IP by mistake so they flagged it and banned those too. I didn’t violate any ToS, they just didn’t agree because (I asked ChatGPT to summarize the behavior of reddit mods/admins):
Woke Authoritarianism
This refers to the enforcement of progressive or “woke” ideology through authoritarian means, such as:
- Censorship of dissenting views
- Cancel culture (public shaming and professional consequences for opposing opinions)
- De-platforming (banning people from social media or public forums)
- Forced ideological conformity (e.g., requiring adherence to specific beliefs in workplaces or academia)
Thought Policing
This term comes from George Orwell’s 1984 and refers to the control and regulation of people’s thoughts, often through fear, social pressure, or punishment for wrongthink. In the modern context, it can include:
- Policing language to ensure ideological purity
- Monitoring people’s statements (even from the past) to punish deviation
- Enforcing conformity through intimidation, cancelation, or ostracization
And a followup response:
Authoritarian Leftism – When left-wing ideology is enforced through censorship, suppression of dissent, and ideological purity tests.
Neoprogressivism / Woke Authoritarianism – Some critics use these terms to describe far-left movements that use de-platforming, cancel culture, and corporate-enforced speech restrictions to control discourse.
Cultural Marxism (controversial term) – Some argue that elements of Marxist thought, particularly in cultural institutions, are used to enforce ideological dominance. However, this term is often misused or overgeneralized.
Techno-Authoritarianism – When social media platforms and tech companies enforce ideological conformity through bans, shadowbanning, and algorithmic control.
Soft Totalitarianism (coined by Rod Dreher) – Unlike classic totalitarianism (which uses force and violence), this is a modern, decentralized form of control through social shaming, cancel culture, and corporate censorship.
ChatGPT seems to have hit the nail on the head, I didn’t even know “Woke Authoritarianism” was an actual term.
Err what?
I gave it a list of actions and behaviors by admins/mods on reddit, and asked it what the political ideologies would be considered. That’s what ChatGPT spat out. I was curious how its inference would work given a list of behaviors. Hilarious being downvoted for pasting from ChatGPT’s inferences though, I’m just the messenger.
That’s NOT the summary I would expect after the feedback of newcomers from the last wave.
It only summarized the behaviors of the mods/admins, not the reddit userbase at large. There’s probably Venn diagram between the two but not exactly 100% the same. And things like shadowbanning (listed in the response) are not actions of the users, or political ideologies of the users either, only something a mod can do.
You missed my point but hey, thanks for the LLM bullshit about woke authoritarianism.
I didn’t even know that term existed, it’s the one that told me about it, I only copied and pasted it.
I always get that screen when I forget to turn off my VPN while accessing a reddit quote.
You should get a better VPN. Mine only gives me this rarely, often when I’m using a node that I can assume is where a bunch of prime would use to run bots.
I like Mullvad. Probably the only reason I get the error is there’s one country that’s a fav, but some sites don’t like it because of its privacy restrictions … which ofc is why it’s my fav.
file a ticket.
You have been permanatley banned from Reddit. if you feel this was a mistake, please use the appeal process
Yeah, I questioned the second and third temp bans they gave me. After the last (so, the third) they banned me. I suspect it’s because I was asking.
Their reasons of course were bullshit, for every single ban (which they confirmed were correctly issued… Morons).
Just putting this out there, if you use startpage you can use the anonymous view feature to get around this :) Obviously avoiding reddit is better but if it’s the only available resource…
At least they told you you’re blocked, instead of just making random parts of it not work with zero communication
I was surprised when I found out that reuters.com blocks mullvad vpn.
Their loss
Just switch servers once or twice, usually works for me.
I use archive.is if I really need to read one of their articles. My point is, it is strange that they block read-only access like that.
Interesting that a news site would block a VPN.
Bots use VPNs a lot for scrapping and other activities.
Interesting that you consider reddit a news site.
I think they mean Reuters.
I loosely consider Reuters a news site. At least partly a comic book.
They likely just use a block list.
If a not was using the vpn server you connected to then it ends up on the list for a few days.
File a ticket!
