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Reddit is blocking users based on user agents? (feddit.de)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Started to get this message when accessing Reddit. I use LibreWolf as a browser, which does indeed provide a more generic user agent to combat fingerprinting, but nothing out of the ordinary either (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0). Anyone else experiencing this?

Edit: seems to have resolved itself. Thanks for confirming I wasn't doing anything wrong. Let's hope this isn't some new algorithm to test if for insufficient fingerprinting so Reddit can kick ad-resistant users.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But they don't care at all about bots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Let’s hope this isn’t some new algorithm to test if for insufficient fingerprinting so Reddit can kick ad-resistant users.

Why hope that? That's exactly what it is. If anything we should encourage shit like that so the site can crash and burn even more. They deserve nothing. It's too bad many of the subreddit blackouts only lasted 48 hours, and even worse people gave up and went back to reddit.

Let's hope they do something really crazy and start requiring ID for all users so more people will get fed up and leave.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Let’s hope this isn’t some new algorithm to test if for insufficient fingerprinting so Reddit can kick ad-resistant users.

Oh, it is. I assure you. Anything but lose ad revenue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What’s a user agent?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Little descriptor your browser has to tell websites what it is and where it comes from

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It also tells the website the OS you're running, as well as the browser, and various version numbers of stuff.

One interesting experiment is to use a user agent changer to view a website, and watch how the website changes every time you load a new user agent.

Google will remove search options if you're using Firefox (mobile?), for example. But if you change your user agent to say you have Chrome, even if you are actually using Firefox, those options magically come back and work. It's almost as if that's anti-competitive behavior or something...

It's also how a lot of websites know whether or not to give you Windows executables or Mac executables, or Linux executables, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It also tells the website the OS you're running, as well as the browser, and various version numbers of stuff

While it's true that many browsers choose to follow a convention that includes that info, User-Agent is just a string, so something like fuku is a legitimate UA

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1945#section-10.15

curl -vA fuku example.com 2>&1 | grep -E '^[<>] (User|HTTP)'
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

they're trying to limit automated scrap or the like. avoid that domain as much as you can

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've got Hermit setup for /r/CombatFootage and it's still loading fine.

I've got a custom user agent ('mobile') and I block everything that I can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I would strongly discourage changing your user agent to anything no standard. Doing that makes you extremely easy to spot in a data set

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Reddit is corrupt. It probably has something to do with them wanting to track you, and they can't track you if you have a blank user agent.

Stay here at Lemmy where humans are respected as humans instead of data mines. Life is more dignified here at Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stay here at Lemmy where humans are respected as humans

I saw a post a few days ago where one Lemmy user threatened to triangulate another user via IP, and then hurt them, because they said Linux doesn't work out of the box as well as windows in their experience.

This was on a main instance. The person didn't get in any trouble.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, Lemmy is full of shit heads and mods/admins rarely care. You can also see plenty of misogyny, non stop verbal abuse, etc. Lemmy is basically a playground for 13 year olds with development difficulties.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can also see plenty of misogyny, non stop verbal abuse, etc.

Lemmy is basically a playground for 13 year olds with development difficulties.

I'm just going to highlight these two sentences, and ask you think really really hard about why this comment has more downvotes than upvotes.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Truth hurts 13yo kids and they do what they can do best - hit dat downside button hard!