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Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

superkuh wrote: post #3

This is the second death of reddit, the penultimate one. But it stems directly from the first death in ~2015 when they accepted the massive venture capital investment and then had to try to monetize the facebook refugees which meant clearing out all the business appropriate "undesirables" including firing many beloved long time corporate employee, and switching to model where people and corporations posted to their p…

I've been on there too long, it feels like they died several times over:

* CEO changes

* Creation of new / infinite scrolling UI (and app)

* Restricting content (banning racist subreddits, hiding NSFW from /all)

* Removing popular "AMA" mod (AMA subreddit is kinda dead now, it used to be a huge event)

* introduction of paid APIs / "fuck spez" campaign

I'm sure there's many more but my point is it's "died" many times over yet still it exists; the drama passed, the baseline remains.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by impish9208 »

I feel like Richard Hendricks in the show Silicon Valley was on the right track with his new internet project. It seemed too idealistic back then, but it’s clear that the modern internet needs to be burned to the ground (or kept barely alive to keep the PMs, MBAs, growth hackers and slop farmers busy). How do you bootstrap a new humans-only network without doing the whole eyeball scanning thing though?

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by account42 »

rob wrote: post #104
account42 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The response to that should be to restrict the events calendar and similar dynamic functionality, not to restrict the 99% of users who are accessing what should be 100% staticly cached HTML.

Good idea; I'll make sure we have all random ?date=1970-01-01, ?date=1970-01-02, all the way to ?date=2026-07-22 URLs cached, even the ones that are 404s but the crawlers still try anyways. Thank you!

It's always entertaining when people proudly display their lack reading comprehension.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by subscribed »

walrus01 wrote: post #99
masfuerte wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My mother tried to buy something on Amazon yesterday. It wouldn't let her check-out until she'd entered a code sent via WhatsApp. Which she doesn't have and doesn't want. She'll be buying her tat on eBay in future. I dream that Amazon will lose lots of sales and backtrack, but I don't suppose they will.

Are you sure it was actually via whatsapp, and not just a six digit code sent via regular SMS to the phone number on record for her account? It's possible whatsapp on her phone has simply hijacked the SMS client functionality and set itself as the default.

> "WhatsApp on her phone"

GP clearly said she doesn't have WhatsApp.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

#125

Post by rob »

account42 wrote: post #123
rob wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good idea; I'll make sure we have all random ?date=1970-01-01, ?date=1970-01-02, all the way to ?date=2026-07-22 URLs cached, even the ones that are 404s but the crawlers still try anyways. Thank you!

It's always entertaining when people proudly display their lack reading comprehension.

That's very true.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by nextaccountic »

IrishTechie wrote: post #16
msny wrote: post #6

I only used old.reddit, it's a sad day as I say goodbye to reddit because the new layout is terrible and since they killed open reddit clients there is no alternative.

You can still use old.reddit, you just need to be logged in. That said, if old.reddit ever went away altogether I would stop using it too.

Maybe RES (or other extension) should gain a mode where new reddit is rendered in the style of old reddit?

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by doodlebugging »

I read the author's post and many of the comments and decided that I was finished with reddit, finally. I have always used old reddit to surf the subs and have never used new reddit.

I did my normal morning routine of checking 8-10 subs that still have interesting content and did not see any nag screen for logins at all. Everything worked on my end just as it always has worked. I read comments and post titles with no issues and no login prompts.

I wonder if the login nags only happen on mobile devices. I surf entirely from a desktop using Firefox or Librewolf and a couple of extensions. I never log in to reddit unless there is some issue that I can help with. I avoid most of the popular subs and focus on things that I have direct experience doing or using. If I do post I leave it up for a day or two and then edit it a bit like Yossarian-style censoring - death to all modifiers!

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by walrus01 »

subscribed wrote: post #124
walrus01 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure it was actually via whatsapp, and not just a six digit code sent via regular SMS to the phone number on record for her account? It's possible whatsapp on her phone has simply hijacked the SMS client functionality and set itself as the default.

> "WhatsApp on her phone" GP clearly said she doesn't have WhatsApp.

If I had a dollar for every time I've seen an older person that doesn't even know what application they're running, or can't tell the difference between the content of a website inside a browser window and an application that runs natively on their computer. I read what the GP wrote, I'm saying there's a non zero possibility she's misunderstanding something.

It seems like something you have to specifically choose, on the amazon account side.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeI...

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by account42 »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #121
superkuh wrote: post #3

This is the second death of reddit, the penultimate one. But it stems directly from the first death in ~2015 when they accepted the massive venture capital investment and then had to try to monetize the facebook refugees which meant clearing out all the business appropriate "undesirables" including firing many beloved long time corporate employee, and switching to model where people and corporations posted to their p…

I've been on there too long, it feels like they died several times over: * CEO changes * Creation of new / infinite scrolling UI (and app) * Restricting content (banning racist subreddits, hiding NSFW from /all) * Removing popular "AMA" mod (AMA subreddit is kinda dead now, it used to be a huge event) * introduction of paid APIs / "fuck spez" campaign I'm sure there's many more but my point is it's "died" many times…

> * Removing popular "AMA" mod (AMA subreddit is kinda dead now, it used to be a huge event)

The huge organized celebrity AMAs already felt like a death of reddit on their own.

> the baseline remains

Did it though?

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by dude187 »

masfuerte wrote: post #23
felooboolooomba wrote: post #13

Meta has spent $2B on verification lobbying. Very successfully it seems. In 1-2 years, you won't be able to browse the internet without scanning a body part and providing a ID for your ass. https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-beh...

My mother tried to buy something on Amazon yesterday. It wouldn't let her check-out until she'd entered a code sent via WhatsApp. Which she doesn't have and doesn't want. She'll be buying her tat on eBay in future. I dream that Amazon will lose lots of sales and backtrack, but I don't suppose they will.

Sure it was Amazon? Sounds like a scam
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