Bypass Reddit's annoying "network security"

Without having to use a VPN, and for free!

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[Reddit's 'network security' message]

Their "network security" is litterally breaking
our balls in parts so small they could be used to feed birds

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You've probably seen, at least once, this especially annoying "network security" message when trying to access Reddit.

I'm working with UNIX servers. When I'm in need of some information, every single day my Internet search ends up on a page I cannot access, just because it's hosted by this website from hell and its "network security" of death.

But I somehow found a way to bypass their filters, as I figured that it was address-based: some of my IPs are blocked, while some others are not. So I set up a proxy in order to access Reddit from my main workstation, which belongs to a network without access to Reddit.

And as I know I'm not the only one facing this situation, today I'm going to allow you to use my proxy as well. Gift of the boss!™

How stupid their filters are...

Each time I try to access Reddit, I get redirected to the "you've been blocked by network security" page. That's not a matter of browser, configuration, or device type - it's the same with my mobile phone, over WiFi.

I can understand they want to prevent archievers, crawlers and malicious programs to heavily load their website... I'm operating a website myself, and all those robots are the real plague of the Internet. I can feel it already, although my website is very small in comparison to the main ones.

But here, we're talking about very silly filters. Just to let you figure why: I'm using two subnets, one /24 and one /29. Both are routed by the same ISP, and end up to the same router (mine). But the /29 has access to Reddit, while the /24 hasn't.

They don't seem to care about filtering subnets that are well-known for being full of bots, it's totally random. And of course, I never ran any crawler of scanner from my IPs.

The dedicated Reddit Proxy, open to evryone, and for free

There's now a machine in that /29 running a proxy server dedicated to bypass Reddit filters. It's working very well, and thus I decided to make it available to everyone on the Internet. I'm pretty sure that will be useful! Here is the address:

reddit-proxy.theraphit.com:13080

It's a standard HTTP proxy. On top of that, I configured it to be discreet: it doesn't add the X-Proxy header to the requests, allowing to bypass their filter while hiding your IP address to Reddit when you browse their site.

A service provided exclusively to my readers!

Warning! You cannot use this proxy to access anything but Reddit and my own website.

You must NOT configure this address as your browser's default proxy server.

Please follow instructions below instead!

Calling the proxy upon need, with a browser extension

To use my proxy easily and without having to change each time your browser settings, you can add the FoxyProxy extension to your Firefox, which is free. This extension is also available for Chrome: FoxyProxy - chrome web store.

It has lots of features, but in particular it allows you to set up a filter with specific rules, which will be used to call a proxy only when you want to access some URLs that match the filter. By default, Firefox and Chrome aren't able to do that.

After having added the extension, open it and click the Options button on the lower left of the widget:

[FoxyProxy's widget]

The main configuration page will open in a new window. Head to the Proxies tab, then click Add. You may now enter the following information, as seen below.

Title : <any description you want>
Type : HTTP
Hostname : reddit-proxy.theraphit.com
Port : 13080

You may just leave unchanged the default values in other fields.

[FoxyProxy TheRaphit.com's configuration]

Your configuration should look like this when ready - Click to magnify in a new tab or window

Then, to build the filter matching URLs you will access through my proxy, you can click the

on the right, as many times as needed. You'll find below each URL-matching rule, in text mode, so you may just copy-paste them from this page to your other browser's window.

*://*.theraphit.com/*
*://*.reddit.com/*
*://*.redditstatic.com/*
*://*.redditmedia.com/*
*://*.redd.it/*

Yes... Those guys at Reddit are using a lot of different domains, they're real monkeys... Just to annoy us even more... You definitely don't need that to spread content on several servers. Just in case I forgot one or more domains, this page will be updated, as I'm also using the service on an everyday basis. But if you feel something is wrong, don't hesitate to reach me by e-mail.

Where you are all done with the configuration, restart your browser. Then open again the extension, and turn my proxy on by clicking on Proxy by Patterns.

There's a page on my website which displays visitor's IP address, at the very bottom of it. If your FoxyProxy configuration is good, you should see:

reddit-network-security-is-annoying.ssn.theraphit.com (62.220.128.232)

Of course, if my server show this, Reddit admins will see that in their logs when someone access their site through my proxy... If they even check their logs. 😈

When you are done with the test, you might disable the rule which uses the proxy to access my own website:

In case of an outage or scheduled maintenance on the machine running the proxy, that won't block you to check on this page if there's known issues. Of course, there isnt't any SLA or 99,999 % availabiliy guaranteed on this service. But as I'm using it very often, if there's something that's not working, I'll fix it.

Just in case you were wondering: YES, I clicked that "file a ticket" button... That was in 2024.

It's now september 2025, and I'm still waiting for their response.

TheRaphit's Web Site is a French personal website I opened in 1997. Since then, I've been fighting censorship and political correctness to provide you with content that "some people" don't want to see freely available on the Internet...

Besides this page, you might also be interested in my hentai wallpaper collection !
Check also my free webcounter service, where you can get and setup easily the same counters as the ones I use everywhere on my website.
I've also now extended this proxy service to bypass geo restrictions when trying to access Pornhub!

More English content is coming soon for my visitors from all over the world. Stay tuned!