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Edit: parent commenter seems to be promoting their product. Looks like a random remote browser, perhaps avoid entering important credentials there. Didn't work

by thih9 3y ago

Edit: parent commenter seems to be promoting their product. Looks like a random remote browser, perhaps avoid entering important credentials there. Didn't work for me. I tried creating an account[1] moments ago; after filling out the form and submitting, I got back: "an error occurred (status: 403)". [1]: https://old.reddit.com/login/ https://old.reddit.com/login/

keepamovin 3y ago
OK, I don't know. Did you try just visiting some random reddit website from the remote browser I provided? edit: I just tried again on a fresh CloudTabs browser and I could successfully create an account and sign in to reddit. So this does work! What did you try? I think it might matter how you arrive at reddit. Try going through the address bar search to a sub you like, rather than pasting in a direct "login to reddit" URL. Idk for sure, but that might be more sus to their systems haha! :) You need to click through a Captcha (at least I did ~ first time I got 1 "bicycle", this time I got 1 "motorbikes" and 1 "stairs"). Perhaps they adapt their IP blocking, this demo only uses 4 IPs globally. Maybe if we push too many users through there, they'll block anyway?? Idk. Anyway, I just tested after your comment and it worked so we'll need to discover what happened for you.
- thih9 3y ago
  My setup doesn’t include a remote browser and I’d prefer not to add one. I listed what I’m using - safari desktop, nordvpn, the sign up link that I checked is in the grandparent comment. This worked earlier for me, now it doesn’t.
  - keepamovin 3y ago
    No worries! That must suck that you can't get on reddit via vpn. I noticed the change a while ago, but was like 'blargh old still works'. So I really appreciated your post today that old no longer works! Re connecting: I'm just sayin you can still connect to reddit over a remote IP if you login/signup per my tests.
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maroonblazer 3y ago
Works for me.
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keepamovin 3y ago
> Edit: parent commenter seems to be promoting their product. Looks like a random remote browser, perhaps avoid entering important credentials there. True. Maybe I should have put a full disclosure? I thought it was obvious, but I get if it wasn't. I'm sorry for not being more clear! It's a good point to advise people to avoid entering important credentials in something that probably looks untrusted. I'd also advise that at this stage as we have no SLAs for now, and are just testing this SaaS-to-be demo of this source-available product: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox Thank you for pointing out the reasonable and important security concerns. Although I should have probably done that myself, I was just so eager to help! Aside: I am surprised tho that you were unable to even login on your VPN. I would think that the IP blocks we run the browser form and those of a VPN would be in the same category of 'cloud IPs', so why should it work on CloudTabs but fail for you directly on a VPN? Who knows?

by thih9 3y ago

keepamovin 3y ago

OK, I don't know. Did you try just visiting some random reddit website from the remote browser I provided? edit: I just tried again on a fresh CloudTabs browser and I could successfully create an account and sign in to reddit. So this does work! What did you try? I think it might matter how you arrive at reddit. Try going through the address bar search to a sub you like, rather than pasting in a direct "login to reddit" URL. Idk for sure, but that might be more sus to their systems haha! :) You need to click through a Captcha (at least I did ~ first time I got 1 "bicycle", this time I got 1 "motorbikes" and 1 "stairs"). Perhaps they adapt their IP blocking, this demo only uses 4 IPs globally. Maybe if we push too many users through there, they'll block anyway?? Idk. Anyway, I just tested after your comment and it worked so we'll need to discover what happened for you.

thih9 3y ago
My setup doesn’t include a remote browser and I’d prefer not to add one. I listed what I’m using - safari desktop, nordvpn, the sign up link that I checked is in the grandparent comment. This worked earlier for me, now it doesn’t.
- keepamovin 3y ago
  No worries! That must suck that you can't get on reddit via vpn. I noticed the change a while ago, but was like 'blargh old still works'. So I really appreciated your post today that old no longer works! Re connecting: I'm just sayin you can still connect to reddit over a remote IP if you login/signup per my tests.

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maroonblazer 3y ago

Works for me.

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keepamovin 3y ago

> Edit: parent commenter seems to be promoting their product. Looks like a random remote browser, perhaps avoid entering important credentials there. True. Maybe I should have put a full disclosure? I thought it was obvious, but I get if it wasn't. I'm sorry for not being more clear! It's a good point to advise people to avoid entering important credentials in something that probably looks untrusted. I'd also advise that at this stage as we have no SLAs for now, and are just testing this SaaS-to-be demo of this source-available product: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox Thank you for pointing out the reasonable and important security concerns. Although I should have probably done that myself, I was just so eager to help! Aside: I am surprised tho that you were unable to even login on your VPN. I would think that the IP blocks we run the browser form and those of a VPN would be in the same category of 'cloud IPs', so why should it work on CloudTabs but fail for you directly on a VPN? Who knows?