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Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by great_psy »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #34
mr_toad wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most HTML is undocumented and unstable, so I’d say it’s far from perfect.

It's perfect in that there's no way for them to differentiate from normal browser traffic. This is adversarial interoperability which is exactly how we're supposed to deal with corporations and their idiotic "terms". Nobody is forced to accept their "take it or leave it" BS. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera... If it's important enough, someone somewhere will care enough to fix it when it i…

I would be very curious to know how many engineers inside google have as their sole responsibility to fight programs like YouTube-dl and so on.

I am willing to bet it’s a whole division.

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by prox »

stepupmakeup wrote: post #67
dotty- wrote: post #62

It 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.

Lightweight (teddit frontpage: ~30 HTTP requests with ~270 KB of data downloaded vs. Reddit frontpage: ~190 requests with ~24 MB)

Was new reddit designed by actual morons? 24 MB and 190 requests! How did that pass any sort of QA?

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by Avery3R »

stepupmakeup wrote: post #67
dotty- wrote: post #62

It 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.

appending .i to the end of the url will still get you the compact frontend

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by Maxion »

prox wrote: post #72
stepupmakeup wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Lightweight (teddit frontpage: ~30 HTTP requests with ~270 KB of data downloaded vs. Reddit frontpage: ~190 requests with ~24 MB) Was new reddit designed by actual morons? 24 MB and 190 requests! How did that pass any sort of QA?

Ad tracking, and obfuscation to make scraping harder, plus it's trendy to use lot's of JS libraries.

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by aSockPuppeteer »

moneywoes wrote: post #35

Very slow but I think that’s a feature. Makes Reddit less addicting

I ended up deleting my Reddit accounts. Spend less time manually typing subreddits in or even using Reddit at all. I’m sure something else will take over but for now this and tildes leaves not much. There is more time for books or other things.

I wonder if a huge swath of people started batch edit-deleting poisoning old comments, gpdr delete requests, and deleting accounts that Reddit would respond. It would greatly reduce their search clicks and we’ll be on stackoverflow, discord, or something else soon.

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Post by princevegeta89 »

ubermonkey wrote: post #2

Good luck. News is the API fees are going to destroy Apollo.

This is the first classic example that I've encountered where a company will uses its power and ownership to completely render smaller, independent products unsustainable

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by goplayoutside »

twobitshifter wrote: post #9

I’ve used teddit but prefer libreddit https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit > It is a private front-end like Invidious but for Reddit. - Fast: written in Rust for blazing-fast speeds and memory safety - Light: no JavaScript, no ads, no tracking, no bloat -Private: all requests are proxied through the server, including media -Secure: strong Content Security Policy prevents browser requests to Reddit of course you can…

There's also troddit.com, which has logins.

https://github.com/burhan-syed/troddit

Re: Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy

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Post by unsupp0rted »

artificial wrote: post #76

If you’re on iOS Hyperweb has support for Teddit redirects, very convenient.

Hyperweb looks great!

Is there any way to have Google Flights redirect the URL to default my currency to my home region?

Google Flights always shows results in the local currency.

Even when I’m logged into Google Flights, even when it has a cookie from my previous search, even when I’m on a VPN for my home currency region, it still defaults search results to the currency of wherever I’m sitting.

Can Hyperweb override this?

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