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.
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no offense but who the fuck cares, you know what i mean? that shithole can enjoy the hell it has consigned itself to.
And like, why are people surprised it’s only getting worse? Of course it is, we knew long ago the removal of 3rd party app was the beginning of the master plan to monetize our communities.
the beginning of the master plan to monetize our communities.
I think it was closer to the middle of the plan.
They’re surprised because they’ve already gotten used to the previous thing.
yeah, i mean, why do you think we’re using this platform right now
I mean yeah, reddit fucking sucks. That’s why we’re all here. Stop going there.
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.
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
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.
What happens if you replace “www” in the URL with “old”?
They might not have the block there
VPN will be blocked.
Firefox+libredirect solves all your woes.
Is this just for desktop? Mobile just gives me errors about a failed secured connection.
You can use UntrackMe on Android or Privacy Redirect on iOS. Or if you are on Anndroid and use Firefox or a fork of it like Mull or Fennec, you can install LibRedirect there.
I’m on Android. Will give this a try. Thanks, bud!
// ==UserScript== // @name old.reddit redirect // @description Makes sure you're using Good o'l Reddit // @license WTFPLV2 // @version 1.1 // @author TheNH813 2018, edited by me // @match https://www.reddit.com/r/* // @match https://www.reddit.com/user/* // @run-at document-start // @grant none // ==/UserScript== var oldReddit = window.location.protocol + "//" + "old.reddit.com" + window.location.pathname + window.location.search + window.location.hash; window.location.replace (oldReddit);Edited so it still allows image preview, because old.reddit’ one is broken now.
Old Reddit blocks me because I use a vpn. You get a dumb ass message about it and can’t view anything.
I pay the developer of Now for Reddit on Android $3.99 a month and it still works. Fuck reddit.
Fuck Reddit, yet you’re directly giving them money and supporting this.
To be fair, you’re not paying the developer. You’re paying the developer to pay Reddit.
Yeah, Ghostal is right: You’re paying reddit.
They’re boosting their sign up numbers by putting porn behind it. I bet it’s not even that racy, they just know that humans are motivated by something potentially titillating
I just switch to desktop mode and never had any problem…
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.
They went from providing value to extracting it.
They made the service more shitty! We need a long word to describe that process.
Excrementize?
moreshittierization
Long word? Pooooooooooopification
Hmm… is impoopify taken?
enfecification?
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
Get you to download their app so they can harvest your user data.
It’s been like this for quite some time now.
And anytime you use a browser, you’ll always be nagged to continue viewing through browser or use their app. It comes up so obnoxiously and I swear it slows you down. They also make the viewing experience subpar unless you use the app.
…which is itself subpar.
This is nothing new. Theyve been doing this for quite a while now.
