Reddit be like

Same if they say to disable your ad blocker.

I love when they give you instructions on how to disable it. Lol, fuck you, website.
- or if they try to guilt-trip you into disabling the ad blocker with a frowny face or something.
- And the instructions are always wrong... I'm not using AdBlock Plus, and they forget to include how to disable the PiHole 😂
Trust is broken. Ads have been abused where I have to block by default unless I already trust your website.

I'm not risking malware for some strangers advertisements.
- Yeah, I agree. I never really minded ads as I just mentally ignore them so I didn’t use an ad blocker for a very long time after it was common practice. I also disagreed with the principle of ad blockers as sites need to pay their expenses.
  
  But then they abused the data that they collected to change people’s political opinions in a way that went way beyond just your standard political ads and that was it for me.
That's when bab-defuser.js and the element zapper get to shine.

not just reddit. any site like that is a no go.

The worst is when companies and resutrants use "Instagram" or "Facebook" as their official webpage.

There's a restaurant where I live that I've never gone to because I can't book it without giving fuckerburg my data
- You should vocalize it to the owner (or at least management) if you can. You'd be surprised what comes of it.
  
  I did this once with a restaurant/bar owner, and she was very understanding. Once I took the time to explain how I didn't wanna be subjected to everything that a setup like that brings, she empathized and actually got a standalone website.
  
  Many people aren't aware until you make em aware. And whether they feel the same or not from a consumer standpoint, at least they'll know that there's people out there who do care, and it affects business. And usually, if it affects business, it doesn't matter what their personal feelings towards it are. A good business owner will be sure to adjust because they learned something new about the market.
- even worse is any deals are on downloaded apps. F that. The only good effect for me with that is its an effective way to identify and avoid corporate type institutions as they are top in using it.
- Call them on the telephone, and tell a human you would like to make a reservation. Telephone voice calls still work at every restaurant in my region. Also, get this, you can place take out orders that way at most places! It's an amazing technology!
especially the sites that have academic questions and solutions for that but they are locked behind an account and then a subscription.
- I assume those are just straight up virus factories.

I recently got “this content is unverified, please open in our app to continue” from a Google search that lead to a random Reddit thread. Nope not gonna do that. I think I found a workable solution on stack overflow after that

You can change the url from www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com to bypass that 😉
- The day old reddit I gone is the day it is officially dead. Reddit is appealing to the insta audience now and it sucks. I've talked to so many people who only recently discovered reddit and they have no idea that discussion used to drive the site. It's a picture browsing site for them. The site is going down the tubes quickly so it can do an IPO I guess.
I also go to the browser drop down settings and change to desktop mode. It's annoying but once you zoom in a little it's identical to mobile view lol.

Lol is this actually what’s going on over there now?

Is spez reading from the Musk playbook?

Will it be called xeddit.com next?

They aren't fully auth-gating the comments yet. You can view the first 5-8 top-level comments and 2-3 comments deep on each parent. Overall, I find myself spending probably 1/5 of the time on a thread that I used to.

EDIT - This is on the mobile browser view.
- Overall, I find myself spending probably 1/5 of the time on a thread that I used to.
  
  Same here. And when I do go there I don't engage with it at all anymore. No posting comments, no posting threads, no up or down voting anything. On mobile I don't use the site at all anymore since Boost for Lemmy got released. Fuck em.
- Occasionally I'll go to a subreddit on mobile browser and half the time I can't view it due to mature content. If I really care then I'll go to old.reddit but often I'll just back out.
I thought twitter reverted that decision.
- Twitter seems to randomly choose which users can be viewed without an account.

old reddit still works. For now.

this is one of those things like VLC media player, or even just hard drives: it's hard to believe it still exists

it will 100% be removed within the next 5 years.
- How is it hard to believe VLC or hard drives still exist? HDDs remain the most cost effective way to store large amounts of data and VLC is a widly popular open source media player that is often the default media player on linux systems
- 5 years? Honestly, I give old reddit maybe 1 year left.
- I just bought 4 hard drives. They are the most cutest effective way of storing data for most people. I'm pretty sure tape is more expensive, if it's not there are other issues like sequentially written data. Anyway, this is a dumb example and I don't expect old reddit to last.

Did I miss something? Or just a joke about the future of reddit because obviously they will go for it at some point.

When I go to a subreddit a popup appears over similar to those news sites asking me to either login or open in app. So it's kinda the present
- That's for NSFW communities. Since the protests, quite a lot of communities are still marked as NSFW, even if they're not, in reality.
- I also get a button along with those to continue in my browser (on mobile). I just tap to continue on Firefox, and it works (at least on any subs that are not NSFW).

Time for a 10 minute mail and 123456 as a password. Take that bullshit website!

Imagine creating an account just so you can find out how to fix an issue you're having and then instantly deleting your account after seeing all the nazi shit on the front page.

Where's the Nazi shit? I just went there and didn't see any of that
- I guess you could say that you do... not see it!
  
  Yeah I know that one was bad. I apologize.

www->old

Instead of old, they should change the url to good.reddit.com

Discord is already there. (Please don't tell me, it's an app. You can use it via web perfectly fine.)

You can use it via web perfectly fine

Except when they demand your phone number for access. Pathetic service.

Often times (not always) you can had archive.is/ between the https:// and the www to get access to it.

Also works when there is a paywall.

I use this trick all the time
I use an extension called spaywall that helps make this easy

There's a userscript, 'old reddit redirect'.

Nah, it's a full on J turn and then floor it!

Is that the British version of a U turn?

You mean Twitter right? Reddit is still plenty open.

Old reddit is still open, new reddit and the mobile site have been locked down for a while now.
Give them a couple weeks

Even worse if you take your time, register with 10min mail and the content is not what you are looking for

Byeeeee

Yep... every time.

I don't want to create an account for a cesspool, twitter

When your one account got nuked years ago and its permanently suspended and rate limited 😍😍😍😍

I can still browse without an account.

Depends on the sub. r/Ukraine is set to NSFW, so they require an account to "verify" for some reason.
- It's because certain jurisdictions require companies to not allow access to potential 18+ content without getting consent and the user saying they are over 18. If there isn't an age selection then in their T&Cs it'll likely have something saying that creating an account confirms you are over 18.
- Can't you just use old.plebbit?

For twitter nitter is really usefull

Reader mode on the browser works sometimes.

Old Reddit Redirect, young padawans.

Twitter too now

instagram 😠