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Well, look at that. Ads disguised as posts.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

if you replace the www.reddit part of the link with farside.link/libreddit it will send you to a random frontend instance.

this means no ads, no js, no trackers, and probably none of this.

to do this you'll need a browser extension. try this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ (couldn't find this one for chrome but you can choose another)

if you used the extension i gave you you can import below as a plaintext in the settings.

redirect.txt

{
    "redirects": [
        {
            "description": "",
            "exampleUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/example",
            "exampleResult": "https://farside.link/libreddit/r/example",
            "error": null,
            "includePattern": "https://www.reddit.com*",
            "excludePattern": "",
            "patternDesc": "",
            "redirectUrl": "https://farside.link/libreddit$1",
            "patternType": "W",
            "processMatches": "noProcessing",
            "disabled": false,
            "grouped": false,
            "appliesTo": [
                "main_frame",
                "sub_frame"
            ]
        },
        {
            "description": "",
            "exampleUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/example",
            "exampleResult": "https://farside.link/libreddit/r/example",
            "error": null,
            "includePattern": "https://old.reddit.com*",
            "excludePattern": "",
            "patternDesc": "",
            "redirectUrl": "https://farside.link/libreddit$1",
            "patternType": "W",
            "processMatches": "noProcessing",
            "disabled": false,
            "grouped": false,
            "appliesTo": [
                "main_frame",
                "sub_frame"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Half the mods in the big communities work for ad agencies. Fact....

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Anyone remember when a certain oat milk brand paid to promote a megathread about their new ad campaign, with comments open, and just got savaged by Reddit? The funny thing is that generally people seem to like the product, but hated the smug marketing so much it turned real bad, real fast.

I wonder how they're doing:

The stock has fallen 42% in the last 12 months, while the S&P 500 SPX has gained 23%.

Ha.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 months ago (3 children)

More of their bullshitery. I had the audacity to use my browser to click a reddit link.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yup, they’re forcing people towards the app because it allows them to collect telemetry data. Your browser walls them off so they can’t data mine your device, but the app gives them full control. It’s why so many services and companies have switched to apps instead of mobile sites; An app allows them to collect and sell your data.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As does putting .i on the end, to use the compact interface.

The links are a bit spotty nowadays, and some of the newer features don't work quite right, but it otherwise works a treat for most things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

and some of the newer features don't work quite right

That's the true feature

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Just curious, because typing Reddit in at the end of searches magically makes the exact niche result you need appear, how do you open a post in old Reddit?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd be more likely to recommend you install a plugin like libredirect and use an alternative frontend to Reddit like libreddit. Get visibility into posts, spread your load across three alternative front end instances to avoid rate limiting, starve reddit of the tracking data they're trying to direct people to their preferred front end for

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Other than libreddit got any recommendations for the other two?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I just pick the fastest three working libreddit instances once pinged by libredirect

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are FF addons that can do that for you. Otherwise you have to manually change the www into old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oh really that easy

Someone else mentioned front ends to limit tracking and stuff so imma check that out too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

uBO can bypass it too, if you don't want to have to deal with old.reddit on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Been that way since the api exodus

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Gotta juice up those numbers before IPO so executives can sell their stock and leave others to hold the bag

[–] [email protected] 79 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You know what's wild?

I have seen them replace the top comment on a post with an ad.
Literally still have all the responses to it that are now completely out of place, but treating it like it's naturally in there. And also it means the top comment (which might have been a bot anyways) has just been taken over by reddit and used to sell ad space.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (3 children)

That is wild. Are you sure it's not the author of that comment editing their post to become an ad? Screenshot?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago

No I think it's some kinda of fucked up bug from them trying to have the first auto scroll spot be the presented as and it taking over the space of the top comment. Like this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

My partner still visits reddit on mobile (the communities they want just are not here and they don't like to post), I know when showing me something we've clicked on a post to have to scroll past a "Presented" comment (ad), the communities stickied bot comment, then we finally get to the first real comment only for it to be some highly upvoted joke comment. Sprinkle in bots and native ad's, I seriously don't understand still putting up with it. It's like saying a shopping complex is still a social hot spot like a mall was back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

This has been the case for ages so it's not anything new.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The former mod of /r/jailbait has everything under control. The IPO is going to be a huge success, no doubt about it.

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