• @friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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    81 year ago

    Who cares. Reddit is dead to me, and spez murdered it.

    Reddit was amazing. I will always enjoy and fondly remember what it was like before Spez fucked up one of the most reputable cultures and brands in internet history. Fuck that guy… just… what a fucking shithead to destroy something so wonderful.

    • GingaNinga
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      21 year ago

      I just wanna look at memes, cats, and news and hang out in the comment section without being exposed to ads, is that too much to ask?I hope their IPO sucks and they get shorted i to oblivion while they bleed off users month over month, because thats whats going to happen if they keep pulling this sort of stuff.

    • @phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s going to take years, but Lemmy will kill Reddit. People like authenticity. Reddit will lose authenticity as it antagonizes its user base through its monetization efforts.

      A core group of people who value that authenticity above all else migrated after Reddit betrayed its values this past summer. They will be the early adopters of this brand new community. It’s happened before on the internet. People hate bullshit. They want to connect with real people that have good intentions and are good faith contributors, free of the influence of investors trying to monetize those relationships.

    • @nutsack@lemmy.world
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      17 months ago

      Who cares

      it still has a shitload of valuable content and will continue to generate lots of it

  • @Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    41 year ago

    Just replace “www” with “old”. I just use a Firefox addon that does that automatically after seeing that nonsense the other day.

    • @psud@aussie.zone
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      571 year ago

      They are trying to force researchers and other data grabbers onto the API. If people can scrape the website Reddit can’t charge them

      • @sus@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        Considering it took this long for them to figure out “empty user agent means it is a bot” and “well-known vpn may be used by bots”, and old.reddit still apparently bypassing this, I’m going to guess they are not going to have much success.

        • @sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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          41 year ago

          if they are blocking proxy and VPN connections, when they detect an unusual amount of requests from your IP they’ll ban it and you won’t be able to circumvent it changing your user agent.

        • @psud@aussie.zone
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          41 year ago

          You can, but some people don’t if they don’t think they’re doing anything wrong

    • cobysev
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      come on we all go to reddit when we need to find some information because its almost always guaranteed to be there

      Most of us dumped Reddit when third party apps went away. I personally haven’t been back to Reddit since creating a Lemmy account. Screw that place; they don’t deserve my patronage anymore. Or anyone’s, for that matter. Continuing to use their content is justifying their shitty business practices. It’ll never get better if people keep enabling it.

      Also, what specific info are you searching for that Reddit can provide? Their search function has always been garbage. Or are you referring to general content and/or subs that don’t have an active userbase here yet?

  • @EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Brave gives a randomized fingerprint when you set the fingerprint blocking to strict. Set the adblocking to strict too, and use adguard for desktop to spoof your user agent to the most common chrome on windows user agent you can find.

    I just made a new blank sandbox to visit reddit and they didn’t block me

    • lemmyvore
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      41 year ago

      On each page load, Reddit pings home with some of your browser stats, including your user agent. You can’t block it (easily) because it randomly uses real API endpoints for the ping, for example it will ping to /api/comment which is used to post comments so if you block that you can’t post…

      What I’m getting at is, they must be collecting that data for something, and doing it this way is obviously an attempt to fingerprint.

      Oh and if you’re using multiple accounts in the same browser without containers/incognito/profiles then they know about it, they keep data on the browser about all of them and send it to the server so it can correlate them.

      • Stern
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        61 year ago

        Once the majority of the old guard mods dip or get removed then they’ll get rid of it, but not sooner. Of course, with how things are going in that regard…