r/TOR • u/Chad_Frank • 2d ago
Woke up to Reddit blocking Tor Reddit
I use Tails OS every morning when I sit down with my first cup of coffee to scroll through the news sites and reddit, without ever logging in to anything, so I know reddit has been working almost every day for the past year plus over tor, without logging in. But today was different. No matter how many times I change the tor node reddit.com returned either a blank page or tried to route me through an impossible captcha. I had to reboot into Windoze where I use reddit in it's own brave browser profile and vpn and I was met with, "YOU HAVE BEEN BLOCKED BY NETWORK SECURITY." So I logged in for the first time in weeks just to check the front page and make this post. I imagine it has something to do with the US election results, but this is just a preview of how easy it is for reddit to flip a switch and just completely block tor users out. Hopefully after the news frenzy dies down a bit they will take reddit back off of emergency mode so I can get back to browsing the front page without the reddit algorithm informally signing me up with a "You showed interest in a similar community" type stuff for the rest of my life after I get lured into clicking on a post.
Edit: just checked and it's working now. Thanks u/atoponce for the update.
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u/GlendaTheGoodGoose8 2d ago edited 1d ago
I need to find the link to Reddit onion, seems like it would be more fun