Nah, you don't need to confirm anything except indicate you want to see NSFW content, just like you used to be able to in the website itself. It's just a dark pattern to convert porn viewers to the app.
In fact, if I remember right, when logged out it can serve cached, pre-rendered pages. Sometimes when HN is down or underperforming, clearing your cookies or opening in incognito will still allow you to view the site because the cache is still present.
They are seeing it as commercial use because those alternative apps have their own advertisements from which they make the majority of their money, which is specifically banned under the new terms.
How long you think until they dare take that away too?
For all intents and purposes, old.reddit.com is just like any third-party client. Vastly preferred by its users, harder to monetize or exert control over.
Listen, the stuff is on their hard drives, being served by their servers through their public IP addresses. I don't care whatever backend method they use to update their cache from some other origin, by all accounts they are hosting and serving it.
It's probably not, which is the problem. I feel like the wilful processing of such details into parse-able, privacy-violating form should be regulated.
Does starting the proxy automatically add it to some proxy list that gets (partially) distributed to users or does running a proxy like this only help if I distribute the proxy to people?
Would some network analysis then not clearly indicate the social graph of people by virtue of connecting the dots of who connects to which proxy domain?