trying to use our website? GUESS AGAIN, IDIOT
this is specifically while browsing via incognito tabs while not logged in. I go to old.reddit.com BLOCKED BY SECURITY I go to reddit.com BLOCKED BY SECURITY I go to a random fucking reddit link via google and then it all starts working again
I cannot stress enough how much I wish some nerd responsible for this sort of shit reddit does would die. I want someone involved in enshittification to literally be entombed in shit for their heinous deeds
That means they’re allowing you based on the Referrer header which you could probably get Firefox to fake.
This is the answer. I run a niche social site, and a blank referer from a device that the site doesn’t recognize has become a red flag. It’s almost always a bot or a scraper. The less lazy ones spoof a Google referer, and the sophisticated ones render the page and even simulate human input. It’s a difficult battle even for a smalltime site like mine. I can’t imagine the war that reddit must battle against scraping. I love my privacy, but being as private as possible is going to come with frustration as we get lumped in with the likely bots and scrapers.
Yup. Your ability to be anonymous online is fundamentally the linked with a bots ability to appear human.