• Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zip
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    Reddit:

    • forces users to use a proprietary app full of trackers to collect data and sell it to advertisers
    • blocks VPN usage

    Lemmy/Piefed:

    • browser access is encouraged,
    • lots of third party apps, most of them being open source
    • allows VPN usage
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      Privacy is a spectrum. But when 99.99% of userdata is publicly available no responsible person could call that service “private”.

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      A detail, but I’ve been browsing Reddit on a VPN since OSA.

      So has much of the UK. So I don’t think their VPN checks are very good.

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          Yeah sure, I was just noting that if Reddit does try to block VPN access, they’re really bad at it.

      • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zip
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        And people have been using third party client with their own API keys even after the API became paid.

        They’ve never been good at any kind of check, it’s just supposed to be annoying enough to bother the average user

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          Well I’ll just say it hasn’t once stopped me and I’ve bounced around a lot of IPs.