The less nefarious explination for what might be happening there is that Reddit has blocked that VPN ip because it's been used for bots and logging in with a known good account bypasses that block.
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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Noticed this last week. Thanks to split tunneling, it's easy avoidable.
Doesn't split tunneling expose your actual ip to Reddit, which is presumably what op wants to avoid?
Split tunneling generally means traffic destined to your local network isn’t tunneled while internet traffic is, which would result in the same outcome since Reddit doesn’t exist on your local network. Unless you have something more specific in mind.
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