That’s not my experience, using various VPNs, public networks, Cloudflare and Apple private relays. A captcha is common when logged out but that’s about it, I have not encountered any shadow bans. I create a new account each week.

>Every new account will be shadowbanned

That's not the same as "blocks all data to non-residential IP's"?

>if it's shared you often get blank page 429. None of this was true before the API shutdown.

See my other comment. I agree there's a non-zero amount of VPNs that are banned from reddit, but it's also not particularly hard to find a VPN that's not banned on reddit.

Proton VPN sometimes (mostly?) has this issue too. It's a bit of an hit or miss in there iirc but I have definitely seen the last message of your comment.

Sounds like you just need to sign in or use the api?

I use mullvad regularly & visit reddit from that connection - it works. But! You have to sign-in.

That's just mullvad's IP pool being banned. The other VPN providers I use aren't banned, or at least are only intermittently banned that I can easily switch to another server.

... if you're logged out. Log in so they don't have to lump you in with every scraper you're sharing a subnet with.

They probably get paid by how many people believe their nonsense.

There are people who actively like it.

I don’t. But they 100% exist.