Time to update this:
Oh no, through this article I found out about Bandcamp's enshittification. I like that Website to obtain music...
OK I read the bandcamp thing and... It's not enshittification at all. Can we stop applying the term to every online service that kinda gets slightly worse for some reason or another?
Just in case:
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification
None of those things happened with Bandcamp
Bought by Epic Games and sold a year and a half later 😩
Yeah, but I still post links to Bandcamp, even though they've gone down that path. One day they'll cross the line, and I'll start posting links to other services.
Arstotzka so great, passport not required.
Noticed that. It used to be easy to bypass, because old.reddit.com allowed me to go there with a VPN, but they recently patched it. I found that changing the user agent to make it look like you're on Chrome and Windows, alongside with US/Canada VPNs tend to get around this, but it isn't very reliable.
Stealth used to work for a while, but not anymore either.
They are doing it to stop
scrappersscrapers and punishing people who use a VPN is just a bonus to them.changing reddit.com to safereddit.com works
Safereddit is https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
Never heard of it, thanks for the tip.
Stealth still works for me
Me too, some people have been saying it no longer does for them though.
Interesting. I'll try with a few different VPN points.
What does a scrapper mean?
Sorry for the typo, I meant scraper. A web scraper is a tool to collect data from websites.
It's a tool that basically pretends to be a user, it opens the website just like you and
iother users do. It collects the data (images text videos) just by browsing around.They used to be prolific, but the problem is that they use a lot of resources on the website's end. Instead big website owners started offering public APIs which allow bots to collect data without taxing the server too much
I've just started to save whatever pages I need to view on old.reddit to archive.org. It gets around the VPN blocks.
Their mascot even has a Fedora.
Use LibRedirect or Redirector to auto-redirect to RedLib public instances.
Are you using a VPN?
Is this Chrome or a different browser I don't recognize?
Are you affiliated with any communist organization?
Yes, yes, and no.
I've heard Reddit is starting to crack down on people using VPNs, which is a real shame because that also means that open information (ie intended by posters/commenters to be universally accessible) will not be.
Reddit is now protecting "their" intellectual property.
Ironically, shuttering access is where the profit is to be had, as it gets sold off to Big Data (AI) companies for processing.
Oppenheimer reference? Lol
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/OBQE_TNI7zw
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
This is not a stop-and-ID state, officer.
Hands up
Replace www. With safe. Or you can get an extension to do that automatically.
well i actually think it's quite a reasonable measure.
other websites would've locked you out completely if your ip is suspected of being used in a ddos attack, while reddit does provide an option to continue using the website for registered users
