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Reddit blocking web search (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago by 10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I noticed today, having searched about TOR nodes possibly being run by government departments in a browser, I got this message, " Your request has been blocked by network security. Please try to login with your Reddit account. " I didn't login in the app!

Haven't come across that before. Has anyone else seen i?

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[–] kowcop@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep, was happening to me all day in Australia (residential internet).. I guess there is no need to ever visit reddit again

[–] 10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm just across the ditch. You have to wonder how much Reddit is now just an AI trainer.

[–] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't wonder. by the time I left there were more barriers to entry for humans than for bots. more newly created or newly active accounts speaking word salad than not. and the moderator help subs were alive every day with somebody asking how to deal with it.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

They'll have a nice snapshot of data up until about 2021 and then it'll just be garbage.