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Provider for cheap vps less likely to already be spammed/blacklisted on popular sites?
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Enzonix Ip was blocked by reddit. Not that I use reddit much but just a proof it was spammed and blocked to sign up to any other site with cloudflare which I was told in another post was likely an IP problem rather than blanket ban on datacenter IPs.
So which providers would be relatively 'cleaner'? or is anything sub $5 per month going to be spammed? I don't think that is necessarily the case if one looks carefully.
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Reddit is full-on 1984. Almost nothing gets past their filters, unless you pay enough or you're Israel, then you get to be the moderator, or you're a US/EU residential IP, then you get to view the propaganda but not post.
I have a service transfer for a nuyek VPS with an unblocked US IP
Unlikely. Reddit seems to block all datacenter/hosting IP ranges. All of my IPs, even newly announced ones are blocked.
I don't think this is accurate. I ran the same script on VPS in all of my locations and Reddit shows unblocked in all of them, despite the Reddit page via curl giving a blocked error. The script just runs a curl check with HTTP return code check, so it likely loads the normal Reddit "you've been blocked" page with a normal successful HTTP return code and thinks it's not blocked.
I think the best option is to get a VPS, then contact Reddit support and ask for them to whitelist your IP address and state to them it's a static IP for a private VPN.
Residental only it seems.
My shared NAT IP from Khan Webhost still works for Reddit and I honestly have no clue how. (knock on wood)
Just an FYI for people curious.. I was curious about this so I installed OpenVPN on 3 IPv4 in different locations and Reddit worked fine on all of them. The common scripts to check if it's blocked said it was not blocked, but a normal curl returns a block page, but if you curl with a long form Chrome useragent the normal Reddit page is output. Also running OpenVPN works fine on all of them.
TLDR is that most server IPs probably work fine via a VPN if you're using a common browser with no user agent modifications. So I am probably wrong saying that Reddit probably blocks most server/DC IPs, they don't.
There are other variables for sure but most of my vps ips are unable to access reddit unless I login or use the trick mentioned below via ublock filters. Amusingly I'm blocked in different ways depending on browser/profile/pc/ip.
https://old.reddit.com/r/mullvadvpn/comments/18jbxb2/here_is_the_way_to_unblock_reddit_while_you_are/ldjaw6h/
Be smart like all the AI companies and do what they're doing right now, get a residential IP.
if you don’t mind me asking, whats the name of this script?
https://github.com/lmc999/RegionRestrictionCheck/tree/main
I've been using this as a VPN for a while and it's worked fine, just chcecked and it still does
Comically, blocked from reading that.
Whats the ublock filters trick?
In my experience IVPN.net IPs are almost always unblocked everywhere. But when i use my self hosted VPN at Hetzner i can’t access jack shit. Only exception is BGP.tools, which suprisingly doesn’t require login on Hetzner IPs
FYI
the script seem to be malicious : https://github.com/lmc999/RegionRestrictionCheck/issues/174
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Setting 'reddit_session' cookie (with no value?) to bypass check.
haha sorry!
custom filter
I don't know if it's the same one I ran, there are 2-3 copies of it around. It was run on temp servers anyhow. Pretty sure it's a popular script, would be surprised if there if there is something malicious.
Thanks for your testing data and admirable that you revised your message based on new information. Most will be proud and remain silent if they find they were wrong.
Btw for some reason I am only seeing the notifications for this thread today and suddenly showed like 20+ notifications, mostly this one. Not sure why the backlog. Reddit suppression?
What "this" are you referring to?
Currently looking for another vps or vpn since I got suspended from enzonix due to not bothering to pay after the change over.
click the "» show previous quotes" button and you'll know
Just using old. instead of www. fixes most threads for me; for no reason my main VPN IP (static, I'm the only user) has been blocked a few weeks ago so I bounce off of one of my machines which strangely enough works most of the time.
Thanks, this trick works for me.
This thread mostly became about reddit which wasn't my intention. I mentioned it only as an example of sites which block arbitrarily.
I actually hate reddit and besides the blocking, if you do get on, you are met by legions of 'wokies' wanting to virtue signal left and right. I once just described something in what I called normal descriptive language, to someone I had no idea of their gender, and then got accused of 'mansplaining'.
I am not a right-winger either who screams woke at anything they don't like. I am Left but anti-woke.
Just one of a million instances of utter nonsense on that place.
Oh and the other and probably biggest annoyance is extreme prejudice against new accounts where you are blocked for 99% of subreddits and they hide the information as to why and have to do detective work to find ones you are allowed to post on.
I try to avoid it as much as I can but some communities only gather there. In such cases if I really want the info I try and resist the urge to make an account as that always ends in frustration sooner usually rather than later and just lurk and read.
It is like how stupid childish themed discord has become the only chat platform most people are interested in using now. How they became the defacto chat service I don't know since it still looks just like it is made for early teenage gamers with the stupid fonts.
I was just looking through this thread again for VPS recommendations but yours of Nuyek it seem they are AWOL? Another deadpool of the many I have already experienced?
I think this time I will prefer look for a provider that won't disappear after 1-6 months which seems the general trend from LET providers in the past. It is a nuisance having to reroll vps when that happens. I would prefer pay an extra couple of dollars a months for a provider which won't vanish suddenly, or less likely at least!