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When clicking on the link from my office (which happens to be in a data center) I get this: > whoa there, pardner! Your request has been blocked due to a netwo
by kloch 3y ago
When clicking on the link from my office (which happens to be in a data center) I get this:
> whoa there, pardner! Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing. If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block.
These kinds of blanket bans on data center IP's ignore the fact that real humans do use them. As for user-agent, I'm using Firefox on OSX with no user-agent obsfucation plugins.
- asia92 3y agotry running a VPN at home and routing through that
- kloch 3y agoI'm trying to discourage others from breaking things with blanket IP bans.
- throwaway167 3y agoMy personal solution is to boycot companies that do this, and should they come up in conversation mention they arbitrarily block legitimate users from their services
- xav0989 3y agoMy office switched to a cloud-hosted network proxy appliance for our internet access. We now get "access blocked" from dozens of websites, including from reddit, simply because the "edge" ip address is technically from a netblock assigned to a data centre.
- akaike 3y agoNormal, it’s same in my company
- jonathantf2 3y agoFairly sure this is because of their API changes - maybe they don't want people scraping?
- water-data-dude 3y agoI use a VPN, and I get the same message whenever I go on reddit. The old.reddit.com version still works though.