I was scrolling through our old subreddit, and it occurred to me that the people who complain about being slightly inconvenienced by moderators probably have no idea what the internet outside of here normally looks like without intervention 
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ChongaSurf do sounds like a 100% legit service lol
Anyway, reddit is really rampant with vpn astroturfing. I’ve seen multiple 10 years old spammy accounts asked about vpn recommendations, got like 500 upvotes then magically another one came giving link to googlesheet with supposedly deep dive vpn comparison table but are filled with affiliate links. Reporting does nothing since 10 years old account should be legit non spam account according to reddit algorithm.
I dunno about ChongaSurf, I’ll have to see what the best site, free ip proxy vpn adress dot blogspot dot com, says about it…
I agree though. I started posting a few VPN discussions to our Reddit pointing to here and the site lately, just because I see much older Reddit posts rank so highly for whatever reason.
Maybe Reddit’s changes to only let websites like Internet Archive scrape the homepage will finally kill them off… but maybe they have some deal with Google to reign forever. Who knows.
Perhaps we should somehow make more visible what kind of shit we actually block from going on the forum. (Without revealing too much of our strategies.)
The amount of AI written comments we block with some kind of link to a product or tracking users with affiliation has really become insane.
Just talk about aggregated stats on what you block per month to gauge what you typically deal with.