At this point, I’m not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.
An obvious chipping away at old reddit. They are trying to get rid of it altogether.
I consider their new format to be unusable.
Unfortunately this means I can now longer find answers to some error messages.
I only go there on accident.
The hurensohn getting his own damn way with just about everything. 🤬🤬🤬
Use Redlib front end should be able to open reddit. Some instances don’t work, but you there are many that work. I use this extension: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
It is weird how many times I have to tell myself out loud “reddit is bad for me; close that tab!”
I am grateful that facebook/instagram requires a login. It means I never have to look at it even when I am feeling weak.
Same with The Atlantic, The NY Times, and the
Jeff Bezos Suck Billionaire Cock MachineThe Washington Post.Thank you for keeping me from reading that trash, rich people.
Removed by mod
And I just discovered this some weeks ago. The “woah there, pardner!” is so cringeworthy.
The whole website is cringe. It has some of the best little communities are on there, but they are the exceptions. Most of it is power-tripping mods and disingenuous arguments from far-right lunatics on a foundation of “narwhal bacon lol.”
To me it sounds like a racist, homophobic Southern US citizen that likes to tote their guns and “defend” their property through the Castle doctrine because freedom (fuck yeah!).
Actually the perfect encapsulation of the brainrot on reddit.
stop watching so much CNN geez
You’ve never been to the South
You mean about the “Woah there , pardner?” or the overwhelming about of racism, bigotry, and homophobia?
I mean I’ve been to the South and I can confirm one of these two things.
Try again. Take your bullshit hot takes the fuck out of here. It’s tired and old. Nobody is buying it anymore.
Right, I forgot that Fox News declared that racism in America is no longer a thing.
Thanks for making me aware that the situation with the racism like the Ahmaud Arbery case is in the distant, distant past and southern racism is not a thing anymore.
Appreciate you putting me into the white view of the situation.
Nobody in the south says shit like this unironically lmao.
USE EU VPNs let them block the EU.
Ok, you do that, but people who don’t want to get cut off from 400 million people, how do we fuck up and breakthrough reddit’s anti anonimity defenses ?
Killing reddit is on the table, but is there a more practical approach ?
i dont have an account anymore but for anytime i need to view a reddit post i use RedReader. its an open-source thirdparty app thats still allowed to use reddits API for accesibility reasons.
Not to sound like I’m claiming to be up on a moral high ground or anything, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth using accessibility tools for non accessibility reasons when it comes to Reddit. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t care, but Reddit has shown me that they don’t give a shot about people who need accessibility tools at all. Allowing some of them to stay around was just a desperate attempt at preventing some bad PR. If they thought an accessibility tool was mainly used by people trying to bypass their stupid and greedy decisions, they would 100% kill it off in an instant
If you’re anonymously browsing the site without being logged in while on a vpn are you really being “cut off” from the people there?
I mean… if you have a relationship with those 400 million people that’s cultivated through your unrecorded, invisible, surreptitious reading of their comments that’s a deeply diseased thing.
When I get this message I switch to a different vpn server and it loads as usual.
Jokes on them I block them on the DNS level.
I’m making a list, and I’ll be checking it thrice lol.
Gonna ban all major sites and IPs. The Internet used to be about the small guy not the downtown.
I don’t even need to do that because my country do that “for me” lmao. VPN was the only way I ever accessed reddit at all.
I think the only four I have set to block are reddit, twitter, facebook’s products and fandom. A shame those are always the top 10 results from any search.
Wait, why fandom?
Every annoying thing ever invented is embedded in every single fandom page. Ads, twitch streams, ads, personality polls, ads, content gating behind login, ads, sidebars, ads, popups, ads, “share with facebook”, ads, “Tweets from thisguy”, ads, “Check us out on tiktok”, ads, ads, ads and some more ads…
UBlock Origin?
I use fandom for my favourite artists
I’ve tried. Check how large the list got before I completely blocked the domain a couple years ago. And it STILL let stuff through, as they constantly add more crud that infests the pages. The focus isn’t on the content, it’s on the revenue… and they push hard on the revenue. I bet every single module has an extensive list of trackers attached.
! https://*.fandom.com fandom.com###WikiaBar fandom.com##.mcf-wrapper fandom.com##.wds-global-footer__main fandom.com##.message fandom.com##.global-navigation__top fandom.com##.is-visible.fandom-sticky-header fandom.com##.wds-global-footer fandom.com##.page-side-tools__wrapper fandom.com##.featured-video__wrapper fandom.com##.discord-module.rail-module fandom.com###mixed-content-footer fandom.com###SurveyModule fandom.com##.global-navigation fandom.com##.wikia-bar-anon.wikia-bar fandom.com##.mw-parser-output > div:nth-of-type(2) fandom.com###highlight__main-container
Your meter could use some work but it sings well enough
I’m making a list
and checking it thrice
Gonna ban IPs
and all major sites
The In-ter-net isn’t what it used to be.
One more step away from log in to view this post. Back away from the trash fire. I see that I’m unable to login through two different VPNs.
Oopsie
Good. The more they abuse their user base the more people will look for alternatives. Hello Lemmy! :)
They really want to track you
VPNs don’t prevent tracking, especially when you’re logging into services.
They can help obfuscate your identity to varying degrees, but honestly this is a pretty odd decision. I’m guessing it has more to do with malicious activity, or some other type of activities that Reddit is trying to curtail, and they feel blocking VPN IP ranges will help them.
Maybe blocking Russian spam bots. Because they interfere with their own spam bots.
If the Russians want their propaganda on Reddit, they will have to pay to use the Reddit bots like everybody else.
Also blocking web crawlers in the post API era.
That… actually sounds pretty plausible.
Many users don’t log in. After the fall of the 3rd party apps, I only use the rdx webapp if I want to view reddit. I don’t log in with an account at all anymore. So all of my data looks like some anon browsing from the same VPN server as hundreds of other anons. Yes they can analyze all of that traffic and individualize it, but that takes work. I’m glad to make them expend more effort, even if they get the same data in the end. Every step that makes it less cost effective for them is better, even if not perfect.
Sometimes I read reddit post while not logged in on old.reddit with vpn on. Just the other day I got this message. After changing servers the message went away
Errrr, I use bing and just click the cache button instead. I have to use a VPN for work and it’s annoying to turn it off just to see one thing on reddit.
