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submitted 6 months ago by 3volver@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

I just wanted to peek at the front page. I guess they don't want people to use their shit anymore. I'm starting to believe in the dead internet theory.

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[-] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 78 points 6 months ago

Lol yeah I can't get on it at work anymore. Goodbye to all the traffic they get from people looking for tech advice on corporate networks. Fucking morons.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 36 points 6 months ago

My work is also banned due to “suspicious” activity.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 50 points 6 months ago

They're banning VPNs. I have no idea why, but reddit is unusable at this point.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 23 points 6 months ago

It could be a simple way to prevent bots which clearly isn’t working, or perhaps users who reveal their IP address are worth more to advertisers.

[-] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

users who reveal their IP address are worth more to advertisers.

I suspect they're able to track a lot of they have your IP address.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago

Don't they have an onion site?

[-] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

So people training their AI models have to pay them instead of scraping them for free. Got to make those share holders happy, right? Even if it goes against its own founding ideals.

[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

i've never had an office job but it's extremely obnoxious they seem to regularly filter the internet like you're in school. there were so so many important resources (including youtube) which had legitimate educational and technical value they'd take away as some bullshit austerity ritual

[-] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

A shame you had lame tech Bros at your job. Ive had a couple office jobs and they both restricted a ton of stuff but they left reddit open.

Undercover MSoutlook browsing

[-] theherk@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

That isn’t the issue here. I agree with you, but in this case the filter is on Reddit's side. It is common and justifiable for corporate machines to use a vpn. Sometimes public traffic doesn’t go through, but not always.

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