Anyone else here unable to read Reddit posts or log in there? (EDIT: SOLVED) They're suing AI company Anthropic

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Thu Jun 5, 2025, 11:33 AM - Edit history (1)

for scraping Reddit to train their Claude chatbot

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/04/reddit-lawsuit-ai-startup-anthropic-data

and today, for the first time ever, I was unable to simply read a Reddit post that turned up in Google search results

Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly scraping user data to train AI : r/ChatGPT
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1l3rq2f/reddit_sues_anthropic_for_allegedly_scraping_user/

as I have ALWAYS been able to do in the past, even when not logged in.

And I can't log in. Can't even get to their log-in page. Any attempt to reach a Reddit page gets me this message:

whoa there, pardner!
Your request has been blocked due to a network policy.

Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing.

If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block.

You can read Reddit's Terms of Service here.

if you think that we've incorrectly blocked you or you would like to discuss easier ways to get the data you want, please file a ticket here.

Every place I've underlined the word "here" is a link, but the first three, reddit.com links, just get the same "whoa, pardner" message - though the address bar shows the correct URL for the different pages. The last, for filing a ticket, goes to https://support.reddithelp.com - and I'm not going to file a ticket because they're probably getting flooded with requests right now.

I haven't posted on Reddit for months. Between DU, the news, and Bluesky I've rarely looked at Twitter, let alone Reddit. But after always being able to read Reddit and log in when I want to, this was a shock.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. no problem here

[highplainsdem]

2. Were you already logged in, or did you just try it?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. I was already logged in on one browser, and not logged in on another browser, and both were fine.

[highplainsdem]

6. Thanks! That reminded me that I usually don't clear the cache on another device, and I checked that for

the first time in a while, and I was still logged in to Reddit there. And so I checked on this tablet again, and this time I was able to get to Reddit's home page and log in with this device.

I'd thought my not being able to reach Reddit earlier might've been a temporary reaction to the lawsuit/scraping. But I hadn't seen Google results about anyone else having problems like that with Reddit today.

[Hugin]

4. Gimmie a sec and I will try it.

I can think of at least one of those criteria that may have gotten me flagged.

[highplainsdem]

7. See reply.6.

[Hugin]

9. See reply #8.

I speculated it was a cookie.

[highplainsdem]

11. Thanks!

[Hugin]

8. No problems...

Other than walking into a wake being held in my honor after associates assumed I had passed on.

Oddly, it’s open casket.

I have some ‘splaining to do.

The only thing I can think of is perhaps you have a bad cookie in a browser and/or app.

[demmiblue]

5. The app is working just fine (one app is logged in, one is not). n/t

[highplainsdem]

10. See reply 6. I was able to reach Reddit with this tablet and log in again after I remembered another

device where I usually stay logged in there, tried that, found I was still logged in there, and then checked this tablet again and was able to log in.

I'm wondering now if my being logged in on another device/browser while not using it to access Reddit, while using this device/browser to read a lot of Reddit posts for more than a month when NOT logged in, might've triggered that "whoa, pardner" warning earlier.