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.
It’s a tool that basically pretends to be a user, it opens the website just like you and i other users do. It collects the data (images text videos) just by browsing around.
They used to be prolific, but the problem is that they use a lot of resources on the website’s end. Instead big website owners started offering public APIs which allow bots to collect data without taxing the server too much
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
scrappersscrapers and punishing people who use a VPN is just a bonus to them.changing reddit.com to safereddit.com works
Safereddit is https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
Never heard of it, thanks for the tip.
What does a scrapper mean?
Sorry for the typo, I meant scraper. A web scraper is a tool to collect data from websites.
Oh OK. Thanks for the correction and description.
It’s a tool that basically pretends to be a user, it opens the website just like you and
iother users do. It collects the data (images text videos) just by browsing around.They used to be prolific, but the problem is that they use a lot of resources on the website’s end. Instead big website owners started offering public APIs which allow bots to collect data without taxing the server too much
Thank you for explaining.
Stealth still works for me
Me too, some people have been saying it no longer does for them though.
Interesting. I’ll try with a few different VPN points.