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.
It will get rid of that
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib There’s some redirect browser addons like LibRedirect that can automatically redirect you to redlib instances.
From the readme in the link there’s a redlib instance uptime list. Can use one with 99% uptime if you’re having trouble finding a good one!
Highly recommend this. It takes some time setting a default instance that isn’t down or broken for some sites but worth it.
is there any firefox extensions/userscripts to make it more tolerable on mobile? the buttons are always way too small.
Rdx.overdevs.com is another mobile frontend that works well
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 made the service more shitty! We need a long word to describe that process.
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
That is basically what they did. There are a decent amount of third party apps around that work. I personally use Narwhal.
The further we get from the whole third party app debacle, the more I think this was just a way to kill the most popular apps. The ones that people said made reddit worth using. The ones that got shouted out in Apple keynotes.
Are they just trying to divert as much traffic as possible through their app?
Yeah, there is 0 way that reddit reviews even 10% of of the content, probably even 5%, if even that. There’s just no way. This is just a scare tactic to get you into their walled garden, to download their app, sign you up, and become a metric.
So people cant access “unrated” 18+ content they found on Google and then have people get mad that the content was NSFW or restricted.
Its essentially a “We dont know what your going to find here and dont want lawsuits” protection.
Pro tip: add old. in the beggining of url. Reddit still has such answers for niche questions
The only browser plugin you need for Reddit is LibRedirect to automatically redirect all Reddit links to a private frontend called Redlib
Or use LibRedirect to do it automatically
You can’t access old.reddit.com with VPN these days. I wouldn’t be surprised if reddit killed it soon.
You can’t access the normal Reddit site behind a VPN either. The only solution is to use a private frontend like Redlib with LibRedirect, to automatically redirect all Reddit links to Redlib.
Enshittification
