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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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[–] LemmyKnowsBest 240 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (49 children)

Reddit is corrupt. It probably has something to do with them wanting to track you, and they can't track you if you have a blank user agent.

Stay here at Lemmy where humans are respected as humans instead of data mines. Life is more dignified here at Lemmy.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Stay here at Lemmy where humans are respected as humans instead of data mines. Life is more dignified here at Lemmy.

I like the sentiment, but it is so incredibly naive to think that there aren't crawlers scraping every ounce of data from Lemmy as possible. While Lemmy itself may not be collecting user data (depending on who is hosting your home instances of choice), other data that is valuable can still be collected, particularly for LLM AI.

If you can access it, the data scrapers have already crawled it.

[–] DasAlbatross 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Especially considering the post from a little while ago showing that admins of Lemmy instances can see what individual users are upvoting and downvoting. There's nothing to stop a bad actor from setting up an instance and just harvesting data.

[–] Rolando 7 points 1 year ago

admins of Lemmy instances can see what individual users are upvoting and downvoting

Everyone can see that via kbin. for example, here's your comment.

(not sure about downvotes... you might have to work a bit more to see those.)

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] thorbot 7 points 1 year ago

T H E F U T U R E

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