Same with their forums, I can’t guess as to why other than NextDNS and the UBlock Origin Light for Safari? I literally boringly lurk and haven’t posted a thing. 🤔
Same with their forums, I can’t guess as to why other than NextDNS and the UBlock Origin Light for Safari? I literally boringly lurk and haven’t posted a thing. 🤔
yeah. some sites will just block VPN subnets by default.
Blah. Well that explains it but it feels like total overkill and stops the rest of us from protecting ourselves.
I don’t understand the reason for this.
Bot swarms use VPNs to hide the individual behind it. Created a bad name for VPNs, so now individuals who care about their privacy get the short end of the stick
Bots use VPNs for all sorts of BS. This quickly gets the VPN servers added to bad-bot blocklists. These blocklists then get shared around by various security services.
Or they’ll see a ton of connections coming from a single IP, which obviously throws up a red flag as a potential bot farm. Even if it’s all legit users, the fact that the single server has hundreds of simultaneous attempted connections tends to throw up a red flag. It’s a pretty obvious “this isn’t just a single user trying to reach the site normally” red flag.
Third, it could simply be about data collection. Reddit is notorious for this. They want that sweet sweet telemetry data to sell to ad companies, and a VPN stymies their ability to find your real location or track your usage across devices.
As far as Reddit I have found a vpn server that does work with it if I change servers then it doesn’t work and gives me the stupid error. I don’t post I just visit the site for information.