got the notification to verify my age when trying to access NSFW posts or profiles already for a few weeks now, but as of today my whole account is blocked unless I verify. I guess that’s it then. Based in Austria btw, so there is no specific law in place that forces Reddit to implement this and I will definetly not give my personal information to Persona, a company that belongs to Peter Thiels Palantir group.
Honestly, a VPN is a good investment in your online safety anyway and would bypass this age verification bullshit. We have it in Australia too. Philippines don’t.
VPN works for me so far, but like I said in another comment: I use reddit mostly on my work laptop and am not allowed to use VPN there …
Can you not install browser extensions? I can on my work laptop (on either Edge or Chrome - they don’t allow other alternatives), but obviously they’re all locked down differently
on mobile you can. i use sinkit and old reddit, and you can force reddit to be usable in old format on your page.
no, not even browser extensions or even different browsers - it’s pretty restricted
Reddit blocks a shit ton of vpns
I’ve used mullvad and airvpn recently and both worked fine for me
I tried signing up with a throwaway protonmail via mullvad browser and VPN and was shadownbanned from day 1.
Maybe they have different rules for new accounts or something then. That said, I would expect a one day old account to require approval (which would appear to be shadowbanned from the user perspective), it’s a very common automod filter.