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#22Replace `reddit.com` with `teddit.net`. Pages load normally and without ads
You could also view the old version of reddit "old.reddit.com", however editing URLs like that is a pain to do on mobile. Very frustrating if I am looking for information on my phone and what I am looking for is on Reddit.
On iOS you can make a shortcut to find/replace www with old in the url. I imagine there's a similar tool for Android, but someone else will have to make that recommendation.
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#23Use either old.reddit.com or i.reddit.com Firefox and Chrome both have old Reddit plugins that will do it automatically. Unfortunately it's not compatible with newer Firefox android .
I also have a very strong hunch that the day is coming where this gets deprecated. There will be some kind of big database migration or service refactor, and reddit devs will not want to be messing with that "gross, old legacy codebase" to make it continue working and so the entire thing will be taken offline.
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#24Use either old.reddit.com or i.reddit.com Firefox and Chrome both have old Reddit plugins that will do it automatically. Unfortunately it's not compatible with newer Firefox android .
> Unfortunately it's not compatible with newer Firefox android .
I'm using it on Firefox Android... Mozilla just made it hard to use most addons. You have to create an addon collection, add the extensions that you want to it, and then use that collection on Firefox Android: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-collections-add...
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#25On a related note, on mobile if they try to make you install the app to view some content, you can just "request desktop site" and that will bypass the block. It's annoying and breaks a lot of the formatting for mobile, but if you're just trying to read something or watch a video, it works in a pinch.
The most annoying part is that android forgets to open reddit pages in rif all the time, so I have to deal with their site constantly.
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#26Use either old.reddit.com or i.reddit.com Firefox and Chrome both have old Reddit plugins that will do it automatically. Unfortunately it's not compatible with newer Firefox android .
> newer Firefox android .
still waiting for mozilla to release more than 5 extensions on android. they are too busy with other things apparently.
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#27It's best to just entirely avoid reddit and other low quality social media.
Yeah yeah yeah. Let's just dismiss the entire site without regard to the fact that there are actually some very good subs on it.
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#28On another note, I tried to make a throwaway on `old.reddit.com`. I couldn't find a way to make an account without using an email. I had to manually type in `old.reddit.com/register` to get to a form that would let me not type in an email and even then it wasn't obvious that the email wasn't required.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could also view the old version of reddit "old.reddit.com", however editing URLs like that is a pain to do on mobile. Very frustrating if I am looking for information on my phone and what I am looking for is on Reddit.
On iOS you can make a shortcut to find/replace www with old in the url. I imagine there's a similar tool for Android, but someone else will have to make that recommendation.
The Firefox addon is called Old Reddit Redirect ... but there is also Redirector which is a more generic redirector, for any websites and patterns. But to be able to use them on Firefox Android, you have to use an addon collection.
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#30Stan tells me https://www.reddit.com/r/randnsfw has been broken for months now also.
Both r/random and r/randnsfw are broken, they appear to be reseeding every day rather than every request, a bit of a bizarre bug.
For what it's worth the reddit admins acknowledged it's non-functioning a few weeks ago but I don't think anything has come from that yet.