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[-] nogooduser@lemmy.world 109 points 1 year ago

Same if they say to disable your ad blocker.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 24 points 1 year ago

Trust is broken. Ads have been abused where I have to block by default unless I already trust your website.

I'm not risking malware for some strangers advertisements.

[-] nogooduser@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I agree. I never really minded ads as I just mentally ignore them so I didn’t use an ad blocker for a very long time after it was common practice. I also disagreed with the principle of ad blockers as sites need to pay their expenses.

But then they abused the data that they collected to change people’s political opinions in a way that went way beyond just your standard political ads and that was it for me.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

That's when bab-defuser.js and the element zapper get to shine.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago

I recently got “this content is unverified, please open in our app to continue” from a Google search that lead to a random Reddit thread. Nope not gonna do that. I think I found a workable solution on stack overflow after that

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 64 points 1 year ago

You can change the url from www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com to bypass that 😉

[-] pahlimur@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The day old reddit I gone is the day it is officially dead. Reddit is appealing to the insta audience now and it sucks. I've talked to so many people who only recently discovered reddit and they have no idea that discussion used to drive the site. It's a picture browsing site for them. The site is going down the tubes quickly so it can do an IPO I guess.

[-] porksoda@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Not only did discussion used to drive that site, but thriving niche communities. I hired a young-ish (~25) webdev recently and he asked where I heard about a certain topic. I told him reddit and he was genuinely confused. I sent him links to r/webdev, r/selfhosted, r/sysadmin, r/datahoarder, and a handful of other recommendations. His mind was blown that reddit not only had those communities, but how deep the content was.

My point is, reddit has really leaned into the lowest common denominator audience to chase growth and has completely abandoned its nerd roots (most evidently by its API policy changes).

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[-] weeeeum@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I also go to the browser drop down settings and change to desktop mode. It's annoying but once you zoom in a little it's identical to mobile view lol.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Lol is this actually what’s going on over there now?

Is spez reading from the Musk playbook?

Will it be called xeddit.com next?

[-] porksoda@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They aren't fully auth-gating the comments yet. You can view the first 5-8 top-level comments and 2-3 comments deep on each parent. Overall, I find myself spending probably 1/5 of the time on a thread that I used to.

EDIT - This is on the mobile browser view.

[-] Hyperz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Overall, I find myself spending probably 1/5 of the time on a thread that I used to.

Same here. And when I do go there I don't engage with it at all anymore. No posting comments, no posting threads, no up or down voting anything. On mobile I don't use the site at all anymore since Boost for Lemmy got released. Fuck em.

[-] lhamil64@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Occasionally I'll go to a subreddit on mobile browser and half the time I can't view it due to mature content. If I really care then I'll go to old.reddit but often I'll just back out.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

there's a firefox extension which converts all links to old.

[-] spiderman@ani.social 3 points 1 year ago

I thought twitter reverted that decision.

[-] i_ben_fine@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Twitter seems to randomly choose which users can be viewed without an account.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago

old reddit still works. For now.

[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this is one of those things like VLC media player, or even just hard drives: it's hard to believe it still exists

it will 100% be removed within the next 5 years.

[-] jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 19 points 1 year ago

How is it hard to believe VLC or hard drives still exist? HDDs remain the most cost effective way to store large amounts of data and VLC is a widly popular open source media player that is often the default media player on linux systems

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[-] freebread@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

5 years? Honestly, I give old reddit maybe 1 year left.

[-] valek879@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I just bought 4 hard drives. They are the most cutest effective way of storing data for most people. I'm pretty sure tape is more expensive, if it's not there are other issues like sequentially written data. Anyway, this is a dumb example and I don't expect old reddit to last.

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[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did I miss something? Or just a joke about the future of reddit because obviously they will go for it at some point.

[-] uzzi@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago

When I go to a subreddit a popup appears over similar to those news sites asking me to either login or open in app. So it's kinda the present

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[-] eldain@feddit.nl 19 points 1 year ago

Time for a 10 minute mail and 123456 as a password. Take that bullshit website!

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imagine creating an account just so you can find out how to fix an issue you're having and then instantly deleting your account after seeing all the nazi shit on the front page.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Where's the Nazi shit? I just went there and didn't see any of that

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I guess you could say that you do... not see it!

Yeah I know that one was bad. I apologize.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago
[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Instead of old, they should change the url to good.reddit.com

[-] Rezzit@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

Discord is already there. (Please don't tell me, it's an app. You can use it via web perfectly fine.)

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

You can use it via web perfectly fine

Except when they demand your phone number for access. Pathetic service.

[-] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Often times (not always) you can had archive.is/ between the https:// and the www to get access to it.

Also works when there is a paywall.

[-] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

I use this trick all the time

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[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a userscript, 'old reddit redirect'.

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 10 points 1 year ago

Nah, it's a full on J turn and then floor it!

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[-] junfel@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 8 points 1 year ago
[-] dansity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

Even worse if you take your time, register with 10min mail and the content is not what you are looking for

[-] DrQuint@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

You mean Twitter right? Reddit is still plenty open.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Old reddit is still open, new reddit and the mobile site have been locked down for a while now.

[-] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 8 points 1 year ago

Give them a couple weeks

[-] HomebrewHedonist@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Yep... every time.

[-] Supanova@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I don't want to create an account for a cesspool, twitter

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[-] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

I can still browse without an account.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Depends on the sub. r/Ukraine is set to NSFW, so they require an account to "verify" for some reason.

[-] quesomodo@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Can't you just use old.plebbit?

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[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

It's because certain jurisdictions require companies to not allow access to potential 18+ content without getting consent and the user saying they are over 18. If there isn't an age selection then in their T&Cs it'll likely have something saying that creating an account confirms you are over 18.

[-] Tankton@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

You could just use a popup that says "Are you over 18 and willing to see NFSW content?" like most NSFW website do, but I guess that doenst generate enough money unlike forcing accounts does.

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[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

For twitter nitter is really usefull

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