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Reddit is blocking users based on user agents?

Started to get this message when accessing Reddit. I use LibreWolf as a browser, which does indeed provide a more generic user agent to combat fingerprinting, but nothing out of the ordinary either (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0). Anyone else experiencing this?

Edit: seems to have resolved itself. Thanks for confirming I wasn't doing anything wrong. Let's hope this isn't some new algorithm to test if for insufficient fingerprinting so Reddit can kick ad-resistant users.

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  • User agent blocking is typically done when they are trying to block bots or crawlers.

  • Let’s hope this isn’t some new algorithm to test if for insufficient fingerprinting so Reddit can kick ad-resistant users.

    Oh, it is. I assure you. Anything but lose ad revenue.

  • Saw the comments so I thought I would check it out. I’m getting that message as of right now, but I am running a VPN.

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