Comment by londons_explore

> that's how you get legal threats from media companies or the police called to your house.

Or residential proxies get so widespread that almost every house has a proxy in, and it becomes the new way the internet works - "for privacy, your data has been routed through someone else's connection at random".

They provide an SDK for mobile developers. Here is a video of how it works. [0] They don't even hide it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a9HLrwvUO4&t=15s

> that they have to objectively ruin the site for everyone using it. See the API changes and killing off of third party apps.

Third party app users were a very small but vocal minority. The API changes didn't drop their traffic at all. In fact, it's only gone up since then.

The datacenter IP address blocks aren't just for scrapers, it's an anti-bot measure across the board. I don't spend much time on Reddit but even the few subreddits I visited were starting to become infiltrated by obvious bot accounts doing weird karma farming operations.

Even HN routinely gets AI posting bots. It's a common technique to generate upvote rings - Make the accounts post comments so they look real enough, have the bots randomly upvote things to hide activity, and then when someone buys upvotes you have a selection of the puppet accounts upvote the targeted story. Having a lot of IP addresses and generating fake activity is key to making this work, so there's a lot of incentive to do it.

Have you considered that it’s because a new industry popped up that decided it was okay to slurp up the entire internet, repackage it, and resell it? Surely that couldn’t be why sites are trying to keep non humans out.

Fix your government.

> I live in the UK and can't view a large portion of the internet without having to submit my ID to _every_ site serving anything deemed "not safe the for the children".

Really? Because I live in the UK and I've never been asked for my ID for anything.

Okay. So what does ten million requests cost, then? Like... a dollar? Is it a dollar? Is it two dollars if they splurge?

Because if the deterrent here is a line item so small it shows up as 'miscellaneous vibes' on a balance sheet, that's not a barrier. That's a tip jar.

How much can you make if you run all of them at the same time?

Doesn't the ISP detect them?

> it's 100% illegitimate.

Based on what?

I think perhaps you merely meant to say that more than 99% of it is illegitimate?

Most of them abuse the ip pool attached to lambda from my experience.

That's already the case (irrespective of residential proxies) because content only serves as bait for someone to hand over personal information (during signup/login) and then engage with ads.

Proxies actually help with that by facilitating mass account registration and scraping of the content without wasting a human's time "engaging" with ads.

Amazon.com now only shows you a few reviews. To see the rest you must login. Social media websites have long gated the carrots behind a login. Anandtech just took their ball and went home by going offline.

Anyone know how to create a usable reddit account from the .onion domain?

Agreed. With things people paid for and using our wifi data to build their "positioning dbs" that you can't block or turn off on your phone, without "rooting" your own device.

How is Find My a proxy network?

Have you tried it? Every new account will be shadowbanned and if it's shared you often get blank page 429. None of this was true before the API shutdown.

Yes you do.

Private VPS for personal VPN in Netherlands (digital ocean), then Hungary (some small local DC) — both are blocked from day one.

> You've been blocked by network security. To continue, log in to your Reddit account or use your developer token. If you think you've been blocked by mistake, file a ticket below and we'll look into it.

Try browsing from any Mullvad vpn. You will be "blocked by network security"

I have never interacted with a reddit employee who wasn't actively gaslighting me about the platform. Do you even use the site? I talked to a PM recently who genuinely thought the phone app was something people liked.

everything on Reddit is so locked down it’s useless. even if you do get to post something useful some basement dwelling mod will block it for an arcane interpretation of one of the subreddits 14 rules.

Have you tried using it logged out on a vpn? It is impossible.

there are several times where I've had to disable PIA to access reddit's login page

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