I browse reddit often, but rarely login to post. I'm an avid user of, "old.reddit.com" because the new design, quite frankly, is dog shit.

I noticed this a month or so ago, I finally login to my account and I am being met with a message stating my password is incorrect. I try again. Same message. I begin to panic a bit, thinking that (somehow) my reddit account was compromised. The liklihood of that happening seemed very, very slim.

Turns out, Reddit just hates Tor users and would rather lie to you about why you can't login instead of saying that the IP Address of the exit-node is blocked, or to not use Tor, etc.

So, the process to login over Tor that works for me (or just worked for me, about 15m ago) was this:

Went to old.reddit.com
Login failed, "incorrect password"
Remembered reddit hates you.
Disabled JS in Tor
Tried again (old.reddit.com)
Failed, but redirected to new reddit.
Sighed
Tried to login. Page failed to do anything after 'logging in' (no error).
Tried again, new exit. Tried again, new exit.
It worked.
Went back to old.reddit.com so I can use the site in a way that doesn't make me want to swan dive off an overpass into traffic.

So, when you see others complaining about reddit hating Tor users, feel free to show them this site.

Comments

takeheart wrote on April 11, 2021 at 8:49 AM

Redirect https://www.reddit.com/* to https://teddit.net/$1

That's for read only, I don't have an account. And unless you made your account through tor, your manipulations are meaningless. And even if you did, they subvert your other activities at tor.

BlackWinnerYoshi wrote on April 11, 2021 at 5:29 PM

Alternatively, you can use regex and redirect ^(http|https)://(?:www.)reddit.com(.*) to https://teddit.net$2, https://libredd.it$2 (what I use), or https://kddit.kalli.st$2 (what I used) (note that you need the Redirector addon)

None of those actually good reddit frontends support logging in, but since most of reddit is BS, you shouldn't care (and I don't have a reddit account any more either). Although, what do you mean by:

unless you made your account through tor, your manipulations are meaningless

— do you mean that you can log into your reddit account if you made it over Tor, or if that it doesn't matter if you log in over Tor if you created your account over Tor? Probably the first one, but I don't know.

Yogihni wrote on April 11, 2021 at 9:54 PM

Thanks; I think the same has been happening to me. It doesn't make sense that my pwd manager or I screw up only when handling a few reddit passwords. Maybe I can get back in to my accounts (also compartmentalizing a few interests that reddit doesn't deserve to correlate and track). The particular accounts I am having trouble with were created and now used on the clearnet with a vpn. I still use uMatrix and hope I can remember/find how to shut down javascript to get logged in again.

It's been awhile, but you reminded me to try switching back to "new" (dog shit) reddit to get logged in over Tor. From memory, it might also help during signup. I agree, reddit is a really shitty hassle to use and maintain some basic privacy. What's the best way for one to track the development of increasing, sustaining traffic and new subs at Ramble (grouped list of all f/subRamble's with traffic stats)?

@takeheart, If I understand you correctly, you suggest that one should create a reddit account using Tor and only ever use the account with Tor for privacy and anonymity. At the other end of the spectrum, any two or more accounts on the clearnet without a vpn can be easily associated together and with the IP. A vpn would protect the IP somewhat, but traffic correlation from the vpn servers can link separate accounts, and the user is often de-anonymized.

Would it be helpful to make a subRamble and share some throwaway reddit accounts with passwords to fuzz-up reddit's data? Sometimes it's nice to have option to make a quick comment, answer, or question that doesn't merit reddit's invasive registration and tracking. We could make a group for Tor accounts and maybe another group for vpn accounts.

takeheart wrote on April 12, 2021 at 11:47 AM

If I understand you correctly, you suggest that one should create a reddit account

Please don't put such filth in my mouth, I'm against using spynet at all. Reddit actively fights shared accounts and their users http://bugmenot.com/view/reddit.com because it wants to sell your ass to all of it's spynet affiliates. It endorses censorship to make user-made content more appealing for ad companies that will exploit said users. Reddit together with jewkipedia was shilling covais bullshit and censoring truth. So all these old-new-tor-vpn are not solutions, like plastic-silver-gold spoon to eat shit with it. If for some reason you absolutely have to eat shit (your choice), then tor-made account from tor-only is the most hygienic way. Just don't confuse yourself with this fuzz-up strategy: your activity inside walled garden does not deter intellectual rape and tracking, it just produces more activity which attracts further rape victims. Please put your efforts into promoting free environments instead.