I love how search engines display inaccessible links.
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At least they told you you’re blocked, instead of just making random parts of it not work with zero communication
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 wish there was a way to filter all sites that block me like this, at least my search would actually show results I can read
Sometimes part of the content can be seen in the search result page, as the crawler got the content. But when you click inside, you’re blocked by the membership wall. Irony?
File a ticket!
Me too. I wrote a blog post about it with a similar title 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.
The fedora tells you everything.
I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.
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.
When that happens I use the summarize with AI feature from Kagi and it does a good job describing the page.
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?
At some point, the mistake was using Reddit to begin with.
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.
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…
I know about that. I do that sometimes. It just isn’t practical every time.
Yeah, the site is great but it’s a bit slow and clunky when I need it most.
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.
idk lately ive had more help outside it on random forums, just dont add reddit to your search, like reddit advice used to be s tier now its c tier, when you compare results from advice you get off other forums, a lot of shills, everywhere, like the webhosting related subreddits
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
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.
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.
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 @daggermoon@lemmy.world , 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
I only hear people talking about Reddit on Lemmy to be honest
forums are still there btw
Beast’s lair is still strong and active today!!
Some forums are still around, but a large number of them and their content have disappeared.
The Internet is in fact not forever.
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
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.
Rule 1 ToS violation – permban.
https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit-instances/blob/master/instances.md < for me it works if I search the post link on one of these
I love how every website leans on JavaScript as a crutch.
Wait. No I don’t.
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.
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 more often than not with Mullvad.
I only tend to run into it with Reddit and Hulu with Mullvad
Yep. I too Mullvad
I use Mullvad, and I have learned a bunch of server locations to use that haven’t been blocked yet
It happens all the time with me, I see it as a blessing.
Happens to me all the time on a VPN.
It isn’t every IP. I just change tunnels.
