I know its easier than ever to dunk on how terrible reddit has gotten, but honestly? What is this? How is is safer to deliver this content to kids viewing reddit on a tablet or PC or in the app? Why even create the bs excuse?
They could just have easily told the truth an displayed a message like “Content is limited. Open in the app to view.” It’s still a jerk move, but at a minimum its honest.
You think that’s bad? They have four of these “promo” dialogs to push users to the Reddit
spywareapp.- Unreviewed community (the one you’re seeing).
- NSFW content.
- Trending content (yes, you read that right).
- Special events (like r/place).
Fuck Spez.
Also just getting a bottom banner asking if you want to use the app. I only ever get there from searches so, no I don’t want the app. One of the only websites deliberately making their mobile site unusable to push an app.
Ublock gets rid of the banner asking you to switch…it doesn’t fix all the other bullshit though.
Weird. I have unlock origin on Firefox Android and I will get the pop-up for See this post in…
If I recall, I had to go into uBlocks settings and enable Easylist- annoyances > chat widgets an Adguard -annoyances >mobile app banners, widgets
I haven’t had any issues myself, but I’ve seen some stuff online saying reddit has been rather aggressive with trying to fight blockers
Aha, that worked perfectly! Thank you very much!
You forgot one: “Can we see some ID?”
Does old.reddit.com still work to get around it?
Old reddit has started to prevent people from accessing the site without being logged in if you use a VPN. Reddit is officially dead for me since last month.
Big yike 😬 Anyone find a decent way around THAT yet? How do they even know that you’re on a VPN? Is it like… they maintain a list of known VPN exit node IPs?
I guess the IPs of most VPNs are known to everyone. I thought killing Old Reddit would be the end for me, but it came sooner. Thanks Spez I guess.
I’m starting to wonder if they kill it not by axing it but by replacing it with a newer ui but not the newest ui.
Yes they have a new new ui now
I use a scraper called geddit, think it was on fdroid.
Yes
For now…
I have been using old.reddit to get around these since the API stuff started
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Or just wait til they abandon you
The best tablet for kids is one with no fucking speakers.
Try switching www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com
For as long as it lasts. It’s clear they’re neglecting it - features like chat don’t work well. Not that the app isn’t a broken glitchy mess either.
Chat? Never used it.
Right? I see it as a bonus that chat doesn’t work.
This is the way
Desktop mode and move on.
Desktop mode andmove on.
Idk about other browsers but firefox has an option to load in desktop view, that is what I do to bypass that when I need an answer to something quick and every other source sucks
Can you set that on a per site basis?
There’s probably an extension for that.
And it works on fennec (firefox from fdroid)
There are loads of old reddit specific ones yes. Worth adding a few and always having them redirect links
That’s why i don’t use reddit anymore
Such a sad state of affairs over there.
Get desktop site on your phone. Problem solved
I don’t know about that, even when I’m in desktop mode the site is Nigh unusable. It’ll refresh the page when I use the back button after viewing a thread and after a short while the whole page will freeze and become unresponsive. Reddit has purposefully made the site as frustrating as possible to use to the point where I don’t even use it to browse my niche subreddits anymore.
Reddit sucks lol
Has anyone tried to scrape Reddit, so that the valuable content from some subs isn’t lost for good?
I suppose we could just ask whatever AI it is that they’re selling the data to.
The mildly infuriating thing is we still go there on occasion
Only because its like the top 8 google results for mostly everything i search!
And it seems like because of the content deal they got https://www.businessinsider.com/why-reddit-is-taking-over-google-right-now-2024-4
I was preferring the scenario where reddit wanted to block Google because “they don’t need the visits” https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23925504/reddit-deny-force-log-in-see-posts-ai-companies-deals
Isn’t it wonderful that google SEO algorithm updates essentially killed off independent forums and blogs? Half of my search results are Reddit and completely irrelevant AI spam.
That’s what you get when Instead of Google getting better at indexing sites, the sites got better at being indexed
Or get links by that one stubborn friend who refuses to leave and thinks creating an account on Lemmy is too much hassle despite having one for every popular site to ever exist.
Friend? What’s that?
Check out redlib. It’s a fork of Libreddit that doesn’t get ratelimited.
The instance I use: https://lr.vern.cc/
If anything happens to that, not only will it probably be forked, but there’s also kddit and Eddrit, as well as a couple of old Libreddit instances that Reddit forgot about.
I feel like there is probably a linux solution for a kid’s tablet, like a refurbished android device, that would be better than a lot of the products on the market which have in the past been a part of countless privacy concerns. VTech and Amazon are big recent examples of lawsuits over children’s privacy violations, and both Hasbro and Mattel have violated COPPA in the past, it’s been an industry for over a decade and has no signs of stopping.