I love how search engines display inaccessible links.
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I get this too from time to time and usually refreshing my VPN fixes it. This is a bug of somekind.
I get the same screen anytime I use any VPN server.
Spez deserves to be slapped
Spez deserves to be Luigi’d
Careful! That almost sounds like promoting violence, and that won’t fly with our advertisers! You have to say, uh, Spez deserves to be unalived.
That happens on some VPNs
"shouldn’t happen all the time on VPNs
Safety and privacy for companies, but not for users. Just because it is, doesn’t mean it has to, or even should be.
It happens more often than not with Mullvad.
I use Mullvad, and I have learned a bunch of server locations to use that haven’t been blocked yet
Yep. I too Mullvad
The issue with a VPN is that it’s likely that other people using the same exit node are doing something malicious. A site like reddit or a bank or whatever sees a lot of attacks coming from one IP (or a range of IPs) and mark it as malicious.
You’d likely do the same thing with your own site - something like Denyhosts or Crowdsec that blocks people trying to brute force a password will end up blocking anyone else using that same VPN exit IP.
Nobody is doing anything malicious. This didn’t start happening until reddit went public and decided to block their API.
What’s probably happening is they’re worried too many requests are coming from one ip address and you might be scraping their precious data to train your LLM.
If there was any justice their stock would be sliding further into the toilet because the first time anyone saw that notice they just quit going to the site entirely.
Nobody is doing anything malicious.
How do you know that though? VPNs are very commonly used to send spam, perform ransomware attacks, DDoS attacks, etc.
What’s probably happening is they’re worried too many requests are coming from one ip address and you might be scraping their precious data to train your LLM.
This is definitely also a possibility.
It happens all the time with me, I see it as a blessing.
I love how every website leans on JavaScript as a crutch.
Wait. No I don’t.
It did not used to be this way. Every website result used to be “cached”, but not anymore…
Enshittification 😔
How’s the search engine supposed to know you’re blocked from Reddit?
Good point, Reddit is the real problem.
“THE MACHINE KNOWS”
Me too. I wrote a blog post about it and would love some feedback. I’m sure it could be expanded even more to include stuff like this.
I wouldn’t expand it any further, as it already covers most of the important stuff. Far more people have to deal with Google’s bs than use R*ddit.
Fair enough. Sometimes it can make a difference though (speaking someone’s specific platform language). But yeah, I get it.
Nice blog you have there. I appreciate the content and will be passing it around a bit.
Appreciate that. Got a backlog of 200+ topics I still need to write about, so little by little.
> Reddit
🤢🤮
I’m on my 5th permban now I think. Some of them were because I logged in with an alt on the same IP by mistake so they flagged it and banned those too. I didn’t violate any ToS, they just didn’t agree because (I asked ChatGPT to summarize the behavior of reddit mods/admins):
Woke Authoritarianism
This refers to the enforcement of progressive or “woke” ideology through authoritarian means, such as:
- Censorship of dissenting views
- Cancel culture (public shaming and professional consequences for opposing opinions)
- De-platforming (banning people from social media or public forums)
- Forced ideological conformity (e.g., requiring adherence to specific beliefs in workplaces or academia)
Thought Policing
This term comes from George Orwell’s 1984 and refers to the control and regulation of people’s thoughts, often through fear, social pressure, or punishment for wrongthink. In the modern context, it can include:
- Policing language to ensure ideological purity
- Monitoring people’s statements (even from the past) to punish deviation
- Enforcing conformity through intimidation, cancelation, or ostracization
And a followup response:
Authoritarian Leftism – When left-wing ideology is enforced through censorship, suppression of dissent, and ideological purity tests.
Neoprogressivism / Woke Authoritarianism – Some critics use these terms to describe far-left movements that use de-platforming, cancel culture, and corporate-enforced speech restrictions to control discourse.
Cultural Marxism (controversial term) – Some argue that elements of Marxist thought, particularly in cultural institutions, are used to enforce ideological dominance. However, this term is often misused or overgeneralized.
Techno-Authoritarianism – When social media platforms and tech companies enforce ideological conformity through bans, shadowbanning, and algorithmic control.
Soft Totalitarianism (coined by Rod Dreher) – Unlike classic totalitarianism (which uses force and violence), this is a modern, decentralized form of control through social shaming, cancel culture, and corporate censorship.
ChatGPT seems to have hit the nail on the head, I didn’t even know “Woke Authoritarianism” was an actual term.
Err what?
I gave it a list of actions and behaviors by admins/mods on reddit, and asked it what the political ideologies would be considered. That’s what ChatGPT spat out. I was curious how its inference would work given a list of behaviors. Hilarious being downvoted for pasting from ChatGPT’s inferences though, I’m just the messenger.
That’s NOT the summary I would expect after the feedback of newcomers from the last wave.
It only summarized the behaviors of the mods/admins, not the reddit userbase at large. There’s probably Venn diagram between the two but not exactly 100% the same. And things like shadowbanning (listed in the response) are not actions of the users, or political ideologies of the users either, only something a mod can do.
You missed my point but hey, thanks for the LLM bullshit about woke authoritarianism.
I didn’t even know that term existed, it’s the one that told me about it, I only copied and pasted it.
What does the search engine have to do with your reddit account/vpn?
they’re showing the links, but you can’t access them.
It is the fault of the site being dicks, but the search engines make the problem more annoying
Did you call the search engine and tell them you were banned from that one site?
Look, dick, you asked a question, I explained it.
I’m not the guy that made the post, but that’s the reason it was mildly infuriating. You don’t have to like the reason, you don’t have to think it’s a good reason, but there’s no good reason for you to be a dick to someone answering your question.
So, you know, fuck off
Take a breather
file a ticket.
You have been permanatley banned from Reddit. if you feel this was a mistake, please use the appeal process
Yeah, I questioned the second and third temp bans they gave me. After the last (so, the third) they banned me. I suspect it’s because I was asking.
Their reasons of course were bullshit, for every single ban (which they confirmed were correctly issued… Morons).
At some point, the mistake was using Reddit to begin with.
It was the only search result relevant to my query.
It was the only search result relevant to my query.
Paste it into archive.org’s Wayback Machine. Good odds that they’ve stored a copy. I’d do it for you and just link to the page, but you don’t list the URL…
IME the wayback machine might give you the post body. I tend to need the comments as well, and archive.today can save all that properly. It usually isn’t saved already, so you’ll have to wait a minute or two. I just use this time to look for other sources.
I know about that. I do that sometimes. It just isn’t practical every time.
That’s the problem isn’t it? We used to have forums where people discus things and blogs where people share what they’ve learned, now it is all Reddit and discord and absolute trash in between.
We still have forums and blogs. Search engines just don’t both including them in search results.
You need to know about these niche communities, which are increasingly in micro-spaces like Discord or Mastodon channels or unmonitored communities like Lemmy.
Which is more in line with Bad Old Web 1.0 than Good Old Web 1.5
They’re there, but harder to find. And some are closing. I’ve had two or three in the last couple years that closed, in the reasonably popular world of cars.
Discord is like gated communities on the internet. Not open to the public and not something that is publically indexed.
It isn’t even comparable to mastadon or lemmy when it comes to being a source of information.
Does anyone else remember back in the early days of the internet when experts used to say, “The internet routes around problems”.
I miss those early days.
To @[email protected] , I see that a lot with searches now too but I just keep searching or find some other way around the problem. There’s no way I click in to Reddit any more. You do you, but I’m saying there’s always another option.
Honestly the internet will route around the loss of reddit just like it did with the loss of forums and other crowdsourced platforms that have died off over time. Yeah, we will lose a treasure trove of knowledge, but a lot of it was also outdated and the same questions will be asked again so the knowledge can be rebuilt.
Reddit is definitely not the final evolution of the internet board. It goes without saying that we can do better. And when a better iteration comes along nobody will even need to ask the Reddit users to switch as theyll naturally migrate like we always have. And then eventually that thing will be decrowned for something better too
forums are still there btw
Some forums are still around, but a large number of them and their content have disappeared.
The Internet is in fact not forever.
This is not a Reddit problem. A lot of websites throw a fucking hissy fit if you have a VPN turned on, and I’m also over it.
There’s a good reason for that, VPNs are extensively used by bot networks for all kinds of activity. But VPN use by bots is actually coming down slowly as bot networks start to switch to residential mobile networks - it’s impossible to block them and you can cycle connections automatically like you do with VPN when using specialised residential mobile IP providers. So maybe web sites will stop blocking VPNs in a few years.
Yep, i get the same thing
Youtube also blocks me in a similar way.
For vpn use? Or what else?
Using a firefox fork browser and sometimes a vpn.
I get that from searches on ddg, no vpn.
RDX still works, it the only way I can search reddit now
Sounds like a you problem
closes ticket
File a ticket!
I consider this more of a feature than a bug.
