I just happened to wander over to that inferior site reddit.

I use a browser on phone and I don’t log in and noticed that it only displayed 5 stories, instead of it’s usual infinite scrolling.

  • I tried with and without a VPN set to Australia
  • Desktop mode browser was prompting to create an account or login, with no bypass

Interestingly, setting a VPN to some other countries had it working as normal.

Has the forced login begun?

    • No1@aussie.zoneOP
      11·
      1 day ago

      I keep thinking “Come Join us!”

      but then

      “Oh, except for that sub, and that one, and that one. I guess they could go join that other lemmy instance”

      • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        1 day ago

        Eh, dbzero is ok. Hexbear is fine for the most part. World is horrible so any instance that doesn’t federate with them is ideal (main downside of dbz, that and the slop)

  • No1@aussie.zoneOP
    1·
    1 day ago

    I tried on desktop using Brave (a chrome offshoot), and it gave me the same as mobile: .

    There’s no way to bypass.

    Interestingly, when I loaded on Firefox with the same VPN Aus exit, it was operating as previously.

    I seem to have some situations where Private browsing window doesn’t work, but a normal browsing window does. Also, sometimes switching to a different VPN server seems to help.

    They probably used AI and vibe coded it 😂

    Seems like they fingerprint you. Eg, After visiting a sub or two, Firefox no longer works either …