what are the chances teddit is stealing our data?
Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy
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#62It sucks that all this talk about scraping HTML will only push Reddit to deprecate Old Reddit even faster so users are forced to use a Javascript-heavy experience, complete with random HTML IDs. What then?
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#63It sucks that all this talk about scraping HTML will only push Reddit to deprecate Old Reddit even faster so users are forced to use a Javascript-heavy experience, complete with random HTML IDs. What then?
Maybe then, Reddit can go the way of Digg.
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#64While we're on the topic of privacy focused frontends, anyone have recommendations for similar YouTube frontends?
Piped and Invidious.
I prefer Invidious for vague reasons, though either it or the instance I use most often seems to fail about 25--50% of the time on videos, with more popular content (e.g., music) failing most often, so I'll fall back to Piped.
Otherwise I use mpv / ytdl, and in fact greatly prefer that approach.
For those prefering a standalone GUI, there's VLC.
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#65For the Redirector browser plugin: { "description": "Reddit to Teddit", "exampleUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/u/rmhack", "exampleResult": "https://teddit.net/u/rmhack", "error": null, "includePattern": "^(https?://)([a-z0-9-]*\\.)reddit.com/(.*)", "excludePattern": "", "patternDesc": "Convert all Reddit http(s) subdomains to teddit.net", "redirectUrl": "https://teddit.net/$3", "patternType": "R", "processMatches": "n…
There is also LibRedirect (https://libredirect.github.io/).
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That's another feature that that seems on its way out, like locking up the api..
Do you mean that they've said it or just makes sense? Curious if they've said anything about it.
The json thing is an API request, so it will come under the new API rate limits.
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#67It sucks that all this talk about scraping HTML will only push Reddit to deprecate Old Reddit even faster so users are forced to use a Javascript-heavy experience, complete with random HTML IDs. What then?
They've already gotten rid of the .compact frontend and actively removed workarounds/aliases that users discovered when it was first removed. Old reddit is definitely next up on the chopping block.
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#68Post about Reddit API pricing and the Apollo app https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083
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SPA being a problem was last decade. Headless chromium is pretty standard for scraping nowadays.
Isn’t that very expensive to run at scale especially mixing in residential IPs to avoid blocking
Each person would spider for their own needs and most would use residential ips
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HTML is a perfectly good API.
Reddit is a SPA though right
Yes and no, the terrible attempts to build a new front-end are, but the old front-end that runs on python with Pylons (I believe) as it’s “front” isn’t.
I like react, and I love typescript, but sites like Wikipedia, old.Reddit.com, stackoverflow, hacker news and so on are nice showcases of how you should never be afraid of the page reload, because your users won’t be unless you’re building something where you need to update screen states without user inputs. Like when your user receives a mail and can’t just reload the page because your users input would be lost if you do so. I think this last part is the primary reason (along with mobile) that Reddit has been attempting to move to React, because the “social” parts like chats and private messages don’t instantly show up for users in the old front-end. Unfortunately they haven’t been very successful so far.
You probably can scrape their current or their new.Reddit front-ends since you can scrape SPAs, but it’s much, much, easier to scrape the old.Reddit front.