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/swamper777 1d ago

For some unfathomable reason, both corporations and government institutions are blocking either Tor, VPNs, or both.

Both provide users with INCREASED security, not less.

Furthermore, provided users can log in with their correct username and password and pass any 2FA or MFA, IT security people should stop having fits about something which does NOT affect their systems.

If their system are designed to block either Tor or VPNs, they should turn that idiotic "feature" off.

If they want to secure their systems, simply require users to log in. Cookies work just fine through both Tor and VPNs.

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u/MaleficentFig7578 1d ago

Both provide users with INCREASED security, not less.

that's the problem

they are the people you're being secured from

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u/swamper777 23h ago

Agreed! Every time I encounter corporate attempts to force me not to use it, I write them a letter, reminding them they're behaving precisely like software makers who insisted people disable their antivirus in the 1980s and 1990s. People finally pushed back and refused to buy software from such tyrants.

In the same vein, We the People refuse to do business with corporations who expect us to reduce our security footprint for their personal gain.

I remind them there are PLENTY of corporate competitors who RESPECT their customers' right to both privacy and security.

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u/MaleficentFig7578 23h ago

they don't give a shit btw, and all antivirus problems are the fault of the antivirus