Reddit wants to make sure they can finger print you.
- Logged in, means they know who you are.
- Not logged but clear IP, they know who you are.
- Not logged in and vpn, hard to ID.
If they can't ID you they can't target ads at you.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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The reason might not even be monetary, given their AI training partnership. keeping an eye on you
given their AI training partnership
hence, monetary.
Money is a consequence of power. And if money is demonized, people forget to look at those hoarding power instead.
It has everything to do with identifying and profiling visitors, but I believe ad revenue is just the cover justification. Social media user profiling has crossed the technological threshold into being of interest to authoritarian states, who are very keen to know who the likely troublemakers are and to neuter social networks as potential channels for resistance organization.
https://redlib.perennialte.ch/
There are many more but this is my go to when I deem visiting that cancerous shitstain of a website as warranted.
From my experience, with VPN on, the block triggers when I run too many requests at once, e.g. RSS feeds updating. Haven't logged to my account in some 2 years now and even if I did, they say it's banned (but also according to them, I can recover it? Not bothering though), so being logged in/out may not be an absolute reason for time out.
It's not just a british thing. I find that reddit blocks VPNs but not tor exit nodes, they even have a .onion website.
https://www.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion/
I've set up a private redlib instance that routes all traffic through tor and I have a browser extension that redirects all reddit links to my server. If you have a vps/home server this is a very seamless setup or you can use one of many public redlib instances or browse through tor directly.
I haven't had that problem at all and I no longer have an account there. I even see nsfw places there.
Nsfwbrowser.com is the shit lmao