I don’t use Reddit anymore, but I wanted to search something that I couldn’t find anywhere. This is what I saw. After killing all the other apps, Reddit now is trying to force us to use their own spyware app.
It will get rid of that
I am not going to like the day they remove that.
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I have, I just use it to view Reddit without an account.
I have left, I just view Reddit…
So you haven’t left Reddit. Like saying you left Google but still Google search without logging in.
- Do you think developers have any say in this?
- They have Reddit Premium for free, and most likely an internal version too.
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib There’s some redirect browser addons like LibRedirect that can automatically redirect you to redlib instances.
Unfortunately they block old reddit for VPN users now
Gotta shuffle VPN servers until you find one that works.
I haven’t found one that works for a little bit
Private Internet Access works for me. Just tested logged out in an incognito mode tab.
That’s not true, at least not for all vpns
I think they’re doing it for logged out users. If you’re logged into an account, you’re fine.
yeah, i mean, why do you think we’re using this platform right now
The only decent way to browse Reddit nowadays is a private frontend called Redlib. You can use the LibRedirect browser extension or the UntrackMe Android app to automatically redirect all Reddit links to Redlib. It’s better for privacy, since you don’t need to access Reddit directly and thus your information isn’t exposed, it works without JavaScript, it doesn’t have ads or trackers and works behind a VPN or Tor. It also lets you view NSFW content without any limitations.
This is why they removed the apps. They want to be driving traffic through the app, and the 3rd party apps prevented that from happening.
I think the worst part is they entirely ignored the most painfully obvious solution of implementing a “reddit plus” or “reddit premium” or “reddit red” and just gated third party app access behind a $9.99/mo subscription. I have a hard time believing most reddit users’ ad views are worth anywhere near that much per month. But instead they decided to burn a significant sum of goodwill on questionable premises and pissed off a significant number of power users.
The feeling I got from all of the communications was that /u/spez was jealous of Apollo and just wanted to kill off Apollo. Which would explain why they took such a scorched earth approach in trying to kill all third party apps
That is basically what they did. There are a decent amount of third party apps around that work. I personally use Narwhal.
The further we get from the whole third party app debacle, the more I think this was just a way to kill the most popular apps. The ones that people said made reddit worth using. The ones that got shouted out in Apple keynotes.
You can open as a desktop page and it works… Or you know… Old.reddit
I know it has nothing to do with protecting the users, but how exactly is the app supposed to make viewing unreviewed content safer?
They make more money that way, ergo safer for investors.
I haven’t been back since the exodus
Me neither, at least I haven’t logged into my account to browse reddit. Occasionally I click on a Reddit because it’s the result of my web search. But I always use a private frontend called Redlib for that, LibRedirect automatically redirects all Reddit links to Redlib, it’s really useful. UntrackMe does the same on Android, Privacy Redirect on iOS.
The Digg exodus…?
No no that was the OG I was talking about when Reddit did the big change to the api. It’s what made lemmy grow so much.
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Don’t think of it as them being unprofessional, think of it as them having a safety valve to relieve the pressure of some people wanting to leave Reddit for Lemmy or elsewhere, because of their bs.
Someday, when they’re confident enough that they have customer retention locked in, that methodology of bypassing will be removed.
Dear Spez: I AM NEVER EVER GOING TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FUCKING APP
Dear Steve.
He ain’t ever going to read that. Can we stop talking about our ex yet?
Easy fix is to update the url to use “old.reddit.com” rather than the base “www.reddit.com”.
That sends you to a version of the site without a bunch of the crap.
any idea how reddit keeps banning my alt accounts ? I am suspecting chrome broswser is complicit.
Many ways to detect this, but let’s start with the basics: Are you using the same Ip address?
Well yes.
Take a break from Reddit, uninstall all apps, clear cookies off all your browsers for reddit.com, wait a few weeks for your IP address to change, then make a new account.
This doesn’t work anymore. I just refresh it and stop somewhere in the middle and it sometimes works.
Old Reddit works for me. Does it just not work in general for you, or does it not work when not logged into an account?
Well, I think the link structure changed. If I add old to the url, the page doesn’t even work, but the homepage does.
Interesting. I’ll have to test it when I get home. I’m always signed in and I use RES so could be some other factors causing it to not be a problem for me.
Did you get a browser error when trying this? It might be because you left the www in the URL. I had to remove that and replace it with old, and it works. The rest of the link structure is the same on both old and new reddit. I even tried it from a VPN just to be sure it wasn’t seeing my logged in cookies, and in a private browsing window where RES isn’t allowed to run. Worked fine.
Oh ok
Pro tip: add
old.
in the beggining of url. Reddit still has such answers for niche questionsYou can’t access old.reddit.com with VPN these days. I wouldn’t be surprised if reddit killed it soon.
You can’t access the normal Reddit site behind a VPN either. The only solution is to use a private frontend like Redlib with LibRedirect, to automatically redirect all Reddit links to Redlib.
Old Reddit works for me, but I am logged into an account.
I mean yeah, reddit fucking sucks. That’s why we’re all here. Stop going there.
Love the absence of logic in these messages. Next time it’ll be “pay $2 to continue” or “do a barrel roll to continue”.
I pay the developer of Now for Reddit on Android $3.99 a month and it still works. Fuck reddit.
Yeah, Ghostal is right: You’re paying reddit.
Anymore it seems to be bots posting nonsense and mods banning anyone who isn’t posting porn