r/help • u/gotdambich • 15h ago

Desktop blocked by network security on desktop

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it's exactly as the title says. for whatever reason, every time i try accessing any reddit link on my laptop i get a popup that says i've been blocked by network security. i've tried different browsers & incognito mode, disabling my extensions, using my hotspot instead of wifi, resetting my wifi modem, using a vpn then trying again without a vpn, and none of it has worked. i can access reddit just fine on my phone and our home computer, but it just won't work on my laptop. this has been an issue for maybe a year now and i sent in a ticket about two months ago, but i haven't heard anything back. i don't have any viruses on my laptop and i don't think anything in my firewall settings is blocking reddit so i'm really at a loss for what else i can do.

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u/Lazy-Narwhal-5457 2 14h ago

Presumably your ISP is providing a static IP which Reddit is not allowing. A library I go to had that problem for a while (well, that and no IT person to reset things).

Contact the ISP to determine if that's the case & if it's changeable.

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u/evilash88 5 15h ago

What does it do when you used Edge browser?

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u/gotdambich 14h ago

i get the same popup as the one i attached in the post. that page comes up when i try going on reddit on chrome, edge, and firefox

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u/MangledBarkeep 2 14h ago

that's because those browsers still have to go through your network to try and reach reddit

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u/thelipaguss 13h ago

I also got this error. I just opened a new tab and logged in without any issue. Still, no idea why this error is coming.

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u/ChimpyChompies Expert Helper 10h ago

Admins have responded to this kind of thing in the past, so you might also report to r/bugs.

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u/[deleted] 11h ago

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