Same if they say to disable your ad blocker.
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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.
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.
That's when bab-defuser.js and the element zapper get to shine.
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
You can change the url from www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com to bypass that 😉
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.
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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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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
there's a firefox extension which converts all links to old.
I thought twitter reverted that decision.
Twitter seems to randomly choose which users can be viewed without an account.
old reddit still works. For now.
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.
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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5 years? Honestly, I give old reddit maybe 1 year left.
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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Did I miss something? Or just a joke about the future of reddit because obviously they will go for it at some point.
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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Time for a 10 minute mail and 123456 as a password. Take that bullshit website!
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.
Where's the Nazi shit? I just went there and didn't see any of that
I guess you could say that you do... not see it!
Yeah I know that one was bad. I apologize.
www->old
Instead of old, they should change the url to good.reddit.com
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.
I use this trick all the time
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Discord is already there. (Please don't tell me, it's an app. You can use it via web perfectly fine.)
You can use it via web perfectly fine
Except when they demand your phone number for access. Pathetic service.
There's a userscript, 'old reddit redirect'.
Byeeeee
You mean Twitter right? Reddit is still plenty open.
Old reddit is still open, new reddit and the mobile site have been locked down for a while now.
Give them a couple weeks
Even worse if you take your time, register with 10min mail and the content is not what you are looking for
Yep... every time.
For twitter nitter is really usefull
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