Maybe this is a protection for a situation when you are at your home under the gun point, but they still let you answer the phone and order you to “act normally”. Sounds like something from a movie, but maybe this happens in real life too.
I think the main intention here is to block the bots. Reddit blocks requests coming from certain IPs associated with VPS and similar commercial providers. VPN services often rent exit servers there. My connection is blocked when it goes through Tailscale exit node hosted on a VPS.
You can use Tor to browse Reddit anonymously, there is even a .onion address
This is great, thanks for sharing! You’ve got a few useful feedback points, let me add one more: does a provider have an onion address. This allows decoupling of payment from usage. Not a big thing, but good to know.
I’m running one Pi-hole, but not on RPi. One is an LXC container on my Proxmox host, another is on dedicated Dell Wyse thin client box.