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  • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlPapers please
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    3 months ago

    Noticed that. It used to be easy to bypass, because old.reddit.com allowed me to go there with a VPN, but they recently patched it. I found that changing the user agent to make it look like you’re on Chrome and Windows, alongside with US/Canada VPNs tend to get around this, but it isn’t very reliable.

    Stealth used to work for a while, but not anymore either.

    They are doing it to stop scrappers scrapers and punishing people who use a VPN is just a bonus to them.










  • As much as I want more people to use Linux and divorce from Microsoft, I don’t want to be someone’s tech support guy, I’ve done it as a teen and as a young adult; I never want to do it again. When my parents have trouble with their computer, they don’t call me, especially since I live in a different timezone and it gets inconvenient… they take it to a technician to get it sorted. If they take a Linux computer to a technician, they will likely just install windows on it and call it a day.