“whoa there, pardner”
cunts
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.
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.
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.
Who cares
it still has a shitload of valuable content and will continue to generate lots of it
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Just replace “www” with “old”. I just use a Firefox addon that does that automatically after seeing that nonsense the other day.
Wtf are they doing?
They are trying to force researchers and other data grabbers onto the API. If people can scrape the website Reddit can’t charge them
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.
I imagine old.reddit is going to be killed off soon.
Can’t you just spoof a user agent anyway?
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.
You can, but some people don’t if they don’t think they’re doing anything wrong
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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?
Google indexes Reddit, it does not index the fediverse
That sounds incorrect. What’s your source?
Previous experience that may no longer be relevant if it is actually doing so now
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What’s Reddit?
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A bit like Lemmy, but worse in every way.
I just keep opening new accounts until they ban them, rinse and repeat
Use an alternate front-end. There’s a couple of them out there but usually the less popular domains are less laggy. I’m currently using https://teddit.hostux.net/r/popular
Huh, I thought Teddit was dead due to the apicalypse. Glad to see it’s still kicking.
It’s usable, but instances now deal with frequent rate-limits and you’ll see 429 errors quite often.
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Why not?
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
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.
Like I said, I used another instance of my browser in a different sandbox. None of the data from my usual instance was there.
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If you mean Tor the network no, it just hides your IP. If you mean Tor the browser yes, it has all kinds of privacy features.
isnt the tor browser just firefox?
It’s a highly customized version of Firefox preconfigured to be more anonymous.
Fuck em
Might wanna wipe that IP next time.
I am assuming it’s a shared VPN address
True, still though.
It is
old.reddit.com still works (for now…).
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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…
