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Cant even read posts on the browser without being interrupted about a minute in saying to use their stupid fucking app. Reddit is trash.
If you use old.reddit.com, at least on chrome mobile, it doesn’t do this. That’s how I’ve gotten around that pop up. It’s more than mildly infuriating tbh.
“request desktop site” usually gets rid of the app nag.
I never post there anymore but there’s a lot of useful stuff from the old days.
Add " switch to Lemmy" to your reddit profile to drive more migrations.
I use uBlock origin to block the pop up, works great
Hopefully I stay on the unblocked side of old. Though I keep adding things like ?utm=fuckspez to the urls
Don’t log into an account.
Browse the Internet like normal.
If x.com or reddit.com won’t let you view without privacy, they’re dead and useless.
Have some spine; lead, and stop following and being led by evil people and companies.
This is true for YouTube as well.
Lol Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram with its nonstop log in request
Platforms with followers where it makes sense to have them, friends and followers on reddit always seemed odd to me
XCancel and redlib will let you browse both without an account, and while cutting out most of their ad revenue as well (bots/marketing accounts notwithstanding of course)
Firefox extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/redlib/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/xcancel/
Redlib is also much easier to use on mobile than old reddit, but posts are rate limited to every 12 hours or something. So it actually helps stop you from doom scrolling a bit too.
They don’t even try to lie effectively. Why in Hell’s name would you need to log in to “keep reddit safe” just to lurk?
It’s up to you on whether you believe it or not. But the reasons they’re giving are that they’ve got protections going on when you access new Reddit that they aren’t able to implement on Old Reddit. Again, this is coming from the announcement from the Reddit admins. It sounds plausible to me and I really don’t care to argue this. I’m just passing along what they actually said.
Protections from… users reading text?
Exactly. That’s why I mentioned lurking. I haven’t participated in reddit for quite awhile, not after getting permabanned for dubious reasons. But I’ll still lurk, especially on some of the niche community subreddits. I also cannot fathom what someone just reading text might need protection from. I can certainly see it for commenting, but you’ve always had to be logged in to do that anyway.
It’s to stop automated scrapping. Old reddit has less/little/no protections from that. New reddit has a lot more in place. So when you log in (which now you can only make an account with new reddit), it tracks a lot more information so it’s more difficult to get around bans. Basically stops the majority of automated scraping, which reddit doesn’t want.
tHe ChIldREn
Not users - people/bots with malicious intent against the site.
Malicious intent to sell the free content that reddit sells? The only thing this is protecting is profits. They’re just pulling up the ladder, that’s all.
I second some_kind_of_guy’s comment. What exactly do you need protection from while just lurking?
Not users - people/bots with malicious intent against the site.
Easier to track users and produce verifiable "x potential viewers " to present to advertisers.
They’ve wanted to kill old.reddit for a while. It doesn’t support advertisers or tracking the way they want. Also RES is still a thing on it. They’re too chickenshit to do so though, since the actual content generators and knowledgebase still use it. This is another attempt to slip the noose tighter
Don’t you understand? Reddit is in DANGER from users NOT BEING LOGGED IN!
It wants you inside of it
Think of all the horrible CSAM posts I can flood reddit with while NOT LOGGED IN! They must be in shambles!
To be fair, the likely reason in this case is AI companies mass-downloading Reddit posts for their training runs. You can’t really cache the internet, so from what I understand, every training run they scrape this stuff anew.
For many smaller sites, it’s effectively a denial-of-service attack, which is why lots of them have put up this thing:
For Reddit, it might just be additional traffic that they have to pay for and which doesn’t give them any profit. Although, if Reddit is still as unstable as it was years ago, I also wouldn’t be surprised, if they got DoSed by that a few times as well.
What you say is true, but not the reason. Part of reddit’s business model is selling its data to AI companies. So they just don’t want to give it away for free
selling its data
Correction, selling its users’ data.
Reddit doesn’t make content, it just hosts content that its users submit for free and charges other people to access it.
I mean, that’s a lot of companies that do this.
Oh, well, if lots of companies do it, I’m sure we’ll all be fine.
Lol reddit’s already a mined wasteland.
You cannot, and never could, post without logging in.
I think it was a sarcastic attack on the claim that forcing you to log in for read-only access to the website is in any way keeping anything safer than it was.
if you just want to browse, redlib is amazing, and even more with the libredirect extension on desktop.
or, you know, don’t use reddit
Porque no los dos? Of course don’t feed reddit with content for them to sell, or aimlessly browse the frontpage. If you need information on a niche subject, or refer to something that happened in 2011, don’t burden yourself to avoid reddit. Just set yourself to be in read only mode with ad blockers to the max so you get more from them then they get from you.
But so many searches i do these days have the answer on reddit
redlib is amazing
two weeks goes by and it breaks
Not worth the effort. Been down that road. Redlib fixes, Reddit breaks again, over and over and over.
It’s clear that Redlibs maintainer is burnt out, as were the LibReddit folks who developed and maintained it initially before it was forked. Software like this is an endless cat and mouse chase, Reddit break something, the community works around it, rinse and repeat.
It’s why we don’t see Bibliogram around anymore, Instagram made their APi unbearable to work with.
In regard to the difficulty of keeping a Redlib instance alive, currently most of the discussion occurs in one issues post on GitHub, and people have suggested other docker images that currently work.
I think it has always worked for me. The instances break regularly, but I just redirect to another one with libredirect.
Huh? My redlib instance broke maybe once this year because I didn’t update it for months. And once I did, it immediately worked again.
I went one step further. uBlacklist works wonders from removing reddit from search results. No point in seeing results from a site that won’t let me in.
If you host a SearXNG instance you can replace Reddit links with Redlib links, just add this to your settings.yaml.
hostnames: replace: '(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': 'lib.your.domain' '(.*\.)?redd\.it$': 'lib. your.domain'
Does it work again?
Stop using platforms that are actively locking you out. The reason they keep doing this is because people keep complying.
So what? Fuck reddit.
Where do you think most of the content on here comes from?
STOP
GOING
TO
THE
BAD
SITE
Just quit going there.
That’s difficult when searching for discussion relating to technical issues. Even without adding “site:reddit.com” it comes up with higher quality information in comments from like 7 years ago.
Ask around on Lemmy. You might be surprised how well the Lemmy algorithm brings the right eyes to your post.
And the garbage finished taking itself out. Wonderful.
Thanks for forcing me reddit. Hello lemmy
Same.
Hi friend!
we knew this day would come
Nice. That is just enough of a barrier to stop be using reddit entirely. Not posted in years but sometimes read when bored enough.
Same, I’m 100% here now.
I still lurked since the api bs and after close to 20 yrs on reddit they pull this crap. They can get fucked.
Exactly why I’m here. I used RIF exclusively for a decade, then they killed it. I suffered with their browser version, but now they killed r/all and I ditched for good.
Its dead, Jim.
Can’t even access reddit at all with my VPN turned on now.
Change your server.
But why. It’s too much bullshit from reddit, just intolerable at this point.
Change your social media.
Why should I change when it’s Reddit that sucks?
Ok then, don’t.
“Can’t even access Reddit at all with my VPN turned on now, and that’s why I don’t use Reddit anymore.”
This does not invite solutions. If you write it this way, you won’t have to get mad at people who reply trying to help you.
I thought the context of this being in a thread about reddit being “absolute bullshit” about removing people’s ability to access the site would’ve indicated that I’m not actually not actually asking for help on accessing reddit.
I’m just providing another data point about how reddit sucks.
Well, it didn’t.
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