reddit.com blocks me when on nymVPN

[DaneBettis]

Just installed nymVPN today.
It works as I expected, and I can browse as expected on the internet. very nice.
I followed a google search link to reddit.com and was greeted with a new form of reddit nannying.
I disconnected and reloaded the page and everything is fine - so I guess they can detect something about my traffic post-vpn and don't like it.

I don't know if this is a thing the nym team can or even should need to deal with, but at the least, since I didn't see any issues about it after a very quick search, I thought I'd let you know.

The below image should provide all the relevant info, and I'm happy to fill in any missing info - the only thing perhaps not obvious from the screenshots is that I am running ubuntu.

NymVPN is a good product - keep it up!

[pronebird]

Hi,

I think that the certain exit node might have been banned by Reddit. Try changing the exit location and see if that makes a difference.

[DaneBettis]

I was able to reach reddit using a German exit node.

Exit nodes in Italy, Armenia, Iceland, Austria, USA, Finland, Belguim, Sweden nodes are all blocked - and those a just the one's I've tested so far.

The client UI doesn't tell me how many nodes there are or if I'm connecting to the same ones - perhaps there's a more systematic way I can see which ones are getting blocked. I'll let you know what I learn.

[DaneBettis]

... and I tried Germany again, and I am blocked again.

[pronebird]

Thanks for looking into this. This is very unfortunate that Reddit chose that path. Work is being done on selection of individual nodes which should at least improve the user experience and let you identify working nodes instead of being bounced between different ones on each connect. I raised this internally with the team.

[002gRTEah3mRYH]

Reddit blocks VPNs and probably Tor if you are logged in, it has been like that for weeks or even months, maybe since API change also, not sure

[marcdbz]

Thanks. Not much we can do in the short term, this is Reddit identifying inbound requests from datacenter IP addresses and banning them. As @pronebird suggested, the best is to try and connect to a different gateway in NymVPN, and see if one is not banned.

We plan to roll out residential IPs, which would allow NymVPN users to "fly under the radar". At best in H2 2025.