Changing the URL to old.reddit.com gets around this, until they eventually give up on the old design.

Yeah they basically block all non-residential IPs now. Has been a thing for a while, about since they started selling their dataset for ML training.

Yep, was happening to me all day in Australia (residential internet).. I guess there is no need to ever visit reddit again

I've seen that message a bunch of times, but only when I've had a VPN running.

Yes, all the time, be grateful that it's your first. Really annoying in the middle of research.

it might be reddit just fucking up, i got the same error while logged in

I got that notification for the first time today as well, guessing it's just a tactic to get people to create accounts they can data mine to sell to AI companies.

yes, i have. Reddit has to fall

Thanks guys for all the replys, much appreciated. Oh well, glad I'm on Lemmy. Seems to be a world wide coordinated shift going on at the moment.

Maybe all those people who I took the piss out of in the past for lining their homes with tin foil weren't so wacko after all, just ahead of their time :)