It’s hilarious. One of the projects I sponsored and cosigned has had the unintended consequence of blocking access to Reddit.
It’s blocked as a “social, news, or personal category”; I’m assuming because we don’t actively advertise here like we do on every other major site, that Reddit was overlooked.
How many of your teams are blocking corp access here, out of curiosity?
Performance protection blocking only really helps for blue collar, and sometimes not even then.
I will only not push back against blocking social media sites when we are talking about warehouse operations, manufacturing, or similar directed-labor operations.
In 2024, Reddit is a bastion of information helpful to all kinds of roles in a company.
If you web filter block anything beyond the major offenders - porn, known malware sites, etc. - your company is trying to provide a technical solution to a management problem.
We don’t block it. How will me and my team find sensible answers?!
It was blocked when I started here, but there were a number of non-sensical draconian policies like that in place. At yet there were tons of actual major security holes that I’m still finding a year later.
My company does. I had to get an exception just to read it from my company computer. Not allowed to post from there either.
Annoyingly we have the opposite problem, Reddit blocked us.
99% sure it’s because our internet comes out at an AWS ip address
I literally got it unblocked because of the sysadmin subreddit.
I did much worse at a job over a decade ago - instead of blocking I would QoS the sites to the absolute bottom that were bandwidth hogs. That way the director who fucks off watching streaming TV all day had a shit enough connection it was worthless to try, but couldn’t complain or fix it because it wasn’t blocked. His streaming was out of control during busy hours and causing issues with our wan connection, so if he complained it was slow he’d get called out for it. Worked like a charm and I actually helped the company and the department and IT all at the same time.
I originally had to put a whitelist in our content filter for the somethingawful forums, specifically so I could read the IT subforum. That place was so helpful is the early years of my career.
These days, we don’t block anything besides the usual adult content and related stuff.
I see no reason to block it. It’s even useful for certain jobs if you’re looking for information. It would be like blocking stack overflow.
Many years ago we blocked emails mentioning a certain ED drug, but found that we were blocking emails from one of our larger clients Pfizer. So that didn’t last too long.
We had it blocked for users as part of social media category. However we in IT had exceptions to IT related subreddits that helped us with work.
Yea we’re also blocking it but imho just because we lacked a better solution in the past. Depending on your solution you might be able to allow read-only access to sites like reddit, in case your main concern is Data Loss.
The last place I worked at blocked Reddit based on productivity issues. In short, people were browsing Reddit instead of doing their jobs.
Reddit has “some” value for information. However, the signal noise ratio is just horrible, and any information that you get on Reddit should be double and triple checked before being used.
Totally blocked here. Reddit contains so many types of content, including porn. These sub Reddit categories can’t be effectively managed by our filter so it’s all blocked. However, folks are free to use their personal cellphones for Reddit browsing.
We only block for security or legality
Reddit is full of porn, etc. Makes sense to block it.
In 2024, Reddit is a bastion of information helpful to all kinds of roles in a company
Let’s not get carried away.
Indeed.
My personal philosophy is to protect company data, and prevent HR nightmares. Blocking the socials or and the like don’t quite cut it.
Ah - my last org blocked Gmail. But ironically not Hotmail.