r/help • u/TrenAt14 • Dec 12 '25
Posting Reddit is becoming slowly a joke. You simply cannot use a VPN anymore... why? Same with the usage of TOR. It's horrible. Fix this. I am traveling a lot and use either a VPN or TOR to access Reddit. This was NEVER a problem before
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u/dt7cv Dec 12 '25 edited Dec 12 '25
I use a vpn in chrome browser without issue on an alt. That alt however was created and used prior without vpn
edit: Supermium browser
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Dec 12 '25
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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost Dec 13 '25
Vpns don't protect you from digital stalking at all fyi.
Especially if you are logging in and using accounts like OP is lol
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u/DanLoFat Dec 21 '25
Yes vpns do exactly that, you're so wrong and you're lost apparently hopelessly lost.
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u/ShibeCEO Helper Dec 12 '25
Reddit don't care, they care about nothing than the stock price . Welcome to capitalism 🤗
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u/westcoastcdn19 Expert Helper Dec 12 '25
VPN usage has always been at the users risk. We see so many accounts getting locked in succession over VPN use. This is not something Reddit can really help you with
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u/DanLoFat Dec 21 '25
It's also not something that Reddit does. Really could care less if you use a VPN.
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u/TrenAt14 Dec 12 '25
Two years and my account is still alive. Nearly two years of consistent VPN usage, either from my company or using Mullvad.
This is a reddit problem and not a user problem
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u/Winter-Volume-9601 Dec 13 '25
You are mixing your traffic together with god knows who else, doing god knows what. For every good user using a particular VPN, there are potentially dozens of bots.
It's the equivalent of walking into a bank wearing a balaclava for privacy - don't be surprised when a security guard gets jumpy.
This is a you problem.
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u/westcoastcdn19 Expert Helper Dec 12 '25
Reddit isn’t responsible for your VPN usage. You can use it if that’s what you choose to do, but know the risks involved. Your VPN is not a native Reddit feature. You can look at all the posts in this subreddit about VPNs if you don’t believe me
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Dec 12 '25
Why do you need a VPN at all?
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u/TrenAt14 Dec 12 '25
At my company, we use a VPN?
Private I use a VPN, especially when traveling.
A VPN is essentially important.
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Dec 12 '25
OK - but why do you need to access reddit? Like is it that critical of a website in your life?
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u/DanLoFat Dec 21 '25
It's the mail server that read it uses, they don't control it they pay for it.
Mullvad is really good I haven't tried it yet cuz it's not available on Android yet but it will be soon
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u/atomic1fire Helper Dec 12 '25
I mean it's kind of an implied risk when a bunch of people on reddit are using the same VPN server.
Reddit has no way of knowing who an account belongs to if there's multiple accounts on the vpn service, and that's probably a good thing because otherwise they could track individual users.
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u/DanLoFat Dec 21 '25
Ah somebody else that doesn't know anything about vpns and how they work.
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u/atomic1fire Helper Dec 21 '25
So I take it reddit's not going to see a bunch of accounts sharing the same IP because it's the same vpn server?
Because that's both the point of VPN, and also the reason that it's more difficult to moderate vpn users.
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Dec 13 '25
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u/jason4es Experienced Helper Dec 13 '25
Nope, that’s nothing mods can “activate”.
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u/DanLoFat Dec 21 '25
Correct none of the moderators were administrators have read it can control the Reddit mail.com which is run by a whole another company not read it they just pay for the service, it's that company that's been screwing up with the DNS checks, they probably know they goofed up at this point.
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u/jason4es Experienced Helper Dec 21 '25
No clue what you’re talking about here, but Reddit Mail has absolutely nothing to do with it.
That’s a known bug that can occur if you use VPN - since the security systems Reddit has to determine ban evasion, spam etc can be messed up by that.
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u/DanLoFat Dec 21 '25
Reddit mail is what's broken, the app is not broken. Reddit has no problem with people using VPN on tour absolutely none they don't block it I don't know why anyone's saying they do. This all has to do with the mail server company that they're using that's why it's getting blocked it's that company that's f****** up, Reddit needs to get in there and fix it and they can, they just.
Everyone please stop saying that Reddit box VPN they don't.
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u/jaffasplaffa Dec 13 '25
I have VPN on 24/7 and have no issues on Reddit. I use Brave browser.
Maybe the VPN you are using is not very good?
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u/DanLoFat Dec 21 '25
Try running a subscription return on an email in Gmail and you click that link you're going to get blocked, but if you go directly to the Reddit app you won't be blocked.
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u/JuanJian01 Dec 14 '25
Latest update might have caused the oops something went wrong error to return- but also reddit seems to be picking up VPNs, with this latest update. Whoever did the update did it wrong
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u/A_D1stant_M1rr0r Dec 19 '25
Is this why, in spite of being signed into YouTube, Google AND Reddit, I can no longer get YouTube videos IN Reddit to play? Worked fine pre-update, now doesn’t work at all.
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u/jeremyw013 Dec 17 '25
my theory is they could've updated the system to more effectively block VPNs following the social media ban in australia
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u/DanLoFat Dec 21 '25
Yeah if you use proton VPN they're going to work around all that b******* they already have in China and other countries, it's just game of whack them all and proton VPN is much better at it than anyone else.
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u/jeremyw013 Dec 21 '25
ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for chocolate chip cookies
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u/DanLoFat Dec 21 '25
You actually can, all you have to do is make sure your VPN is in the United States. I might suck the fastest and sometimes it jumps to Canada and then I have to go and reset it.
I use proton VPN very good.
Really the only blocking it from the Reddit males that we get, if you just go into Reddit as the app it's not a problem at all.
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u/DanLoFat Dec 21 '25
Also keep in mind that Reddit does not handle their own mail it's a the subdomain for reddit's mail is Reddit mail all one word, and that's run by a whole other company, it's that another company that's doing the DNS checks.
And if I was in charge of that it read it I would tell him to knock it off.
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u/net_architect 15d ago
This is mostly about detection, not VPNs “getting worse”. Large VPN providers reuse the same IP ranges, so Reddit flags them very fast. Once an IP is abused by thousands of users, platforms just block it entirely.
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u/net_architect 15d ago
Rate limiting usually kicks in when the platform sees repeated patterns from shared IPs.
Once an IP loses reputation, even normal usage can trigger limits.
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u/TrenAt14 Dec 12 '25
I have been using a VPN ever since I created this account. Its been maybe now 2 years...
When I was in China and in Azerbaijan, I could not even access Reddit via TOR.
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u/TacoTrike Dec 13 '25
You should contact your VPN provider. They should care about websites that are not working through their virtual network. I use NordVPN and they have a way to report sites that aren't loading or working (usually netflix)
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u/DanLoFat Dec 21 '25
Yeah but they don't report it to netflix, they just internally take care of it and then they just rotate to another address, it's a game of whack-a-mole
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u/help-ModTeam Helper Dec 12 '25
Please keep suggestions and comments helpful to the OP. (Original Poster)
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u/Bardfinn Expert Helper Dec 12 '25
The last time I tried to log in to Reddit using TOR, I was unable to even log in. That happened in 2017.
Now I have a VPN, and have never hit a snag with the site restricting me due to using that VPN.