I love how search engines display inaccessible links.
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I was surprised when I found out that reuters.com blocks mullvad vpn.
Just switch servers once or twice, usually works for me.
Interesting that a news site would block a VPN.
Interesting that you consider reddit a news site.
I loosely consider Reuters a news site. At least partly a comic book.
I think they mean Reuters.
Bots use VPNs a lot for scrapping and other activities.
Their loss
They likely just use a block list.
If a not was using the vpn server you connected to then it ends up on the list for a few days.
When google started to index paywalled things… I thought that was pretty evil. Showing google content but not normal internet users. Giving sites the ability to have their cake and eat it too.
When reddit decided to force logging in to see some subreddits on mobile, I decided they were evil.
This is why I’m on Lemmy posting content, we have to use open platforms if we want them to succeed. This is the first time I’ve used social media. I’m doing it as a civic duty
When google started to index paywalled things…
Google has (had?) a rule. If a site lets them index their paywalled content, then the site must deliver the full content if the referrer is google.com or else they will de-index the site. So when clicking a link on google, the full article should appear. It was an old trick to just google the article title to find a link and click through to read a paywalled article.
Is that policy gone now?
as far as i can tell that policy never existed. The first instance of this was for academic articles being indexed behind a paywall, and they NEVER worked with the referrer being google.
It kind of existed when Google included a link to every site’s cached content, but they removed that years ago.
It’s been that long?
That’s depressing for a few reasons
That is an easy way to make less traffic from people that don’t really care. When I see it, I close the page and look for the next result.
If you really need to know what is written there I guess you can Log in or use redlib or something like that.
This is the reason I never had a twitter account. Why would I bother making an account if I don’t know why I would want one in the first place?
When that happens I use the summarize with AI feature from Kagi and it does a good job describing the page.
I love how every website leans on JavaScript as a crutch.
Wait. No I don’t.
that’s on you for preventing the billion dollar company from tracking your every move ;)
It’s hilarious that you made me curious enough to look up RDDT’s stock price today, down 9% today alone lol, -31% in the last 30 days. A third of their stock value lost in the past month, very impressive.
It did not used to be this way. Every website result used to be “cached”, but not anymore…
Enshittification 😔
Well, fine with me. Closing one tab is no big deal, let the website die
This, primarily, is the reason I am paying for Kagi. It allows you to hide shit sites, AKA reddit from search results.
I just found a Firefox extension that let’s you open these blocked pages in archive. Pretty excited to bypass the bs of VPN blocks
What’s the name of the extension?
Web archives
Thanks, this looks sweet.
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.
How’s the search engine supposed to know you’re blocked from Reddit?
Good point, Reddit is the real problem.
“THE MACHINE KNOWS”
I consider this more of a feature than a bug.
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
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
I read this as “we don’t want you, the user, to interact with our 100% user-content driven website that depends on your presence to keep having value”.
