This is what I get when going to Reddit while connected to Proton VPN, connected to a server in the same country I live in.

  • conorabA
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    4 months ago

    My guess is it’s to reduce scraping. A single bad actor can swap between IPs from VPN providers easily. They also seem to ban blocks of IPs since both my colocated server IP (had it since 2019) and PureVPN dedicated IP (recent) are blocked despite me being the only user. Forcing account creation adds an extra step and way they can block you.