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An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by analognoise »

elliekelly wrote: post #212
hombre_fatal wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem that Reddit's native vid/img upload solved was how every Reddit thread older than a year was a 404 link to imgur, a Youtube video since made private, etc. It's essential to avoid link rot. Not long ago, old Reddit content was almost always dead. As usual, it's just trade-offs.

Shouldn’t the creators of the original content have a say though? If someone made their youtube video private that probably means they don’t want people watching it anymore.

If that was a consideration, wouldn't they have hosted it themselves?

Even super small businesses that rely on training videos as paid income don't host things on YouTube because they want more control over the content.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by vorpalhex »

SquareWheel wrote: post #131
hn8788 wrote: post #126

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You can use RES and ignore the bots, then you'll never see them. If you don't want to use RES, you could always just block them through reddit and get the same effect. It's not hard.

There's hundreds of bots, and thousands of users who trigger them. You can't possibly block everyone typing /u/SaveVideo, or responding "Good bot/Bad bot" in the comments. Reddit's tools are not up to the task.

If everyone is using a bot, sort of seems like it might be important...

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by crazygringo »

grishka wrote: post #274
crazygringo wrote: post #254

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In the case of Reddit, first-party content is better in almost every way. If I can scroll through content effortlessly, then it's easy. If I have to open each link in a new browser view/tab, ugh . Embedded images on Reddit load instantly, while loading an entire Imgur page takes forever. Not to mention that linked content is often ephemeral, whereas first-party hosting ensures it always stays viewable together with t…

I take it you haven't heard about the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension...

For my phone? No, I haven't!

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by dec0dedab0de »

kevincox wrote: post #90

Once upon a time Reddit was a link aggregator. You would post a link and the author would get credit. You could save the link without Reddit. But Reddit is moving towards first party content. Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support but many communities disallow external content. Requiring a reupload or a screenshot. This not only removes the link to the actual creator but is also a nightmare…

I think its because browsers started hiding links, and apps started replacing websites. You have a generation of people that grew up without links, and many many more late adopters that didn't willingly use the internet until the 2010s.

I had to help a friend send me a link to something a few days ago, he had no idea what I was talking about. He didn't know how to copy/paste on his iPhone, and didn't realize you could get the link from safari.

...in a bit of an ironic twist, the reason he needed to send me a link was because the restaurant we were at had a QR code menu, and my phone doesn't have a QR reader.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by debaserab2 »

slothtrop wrote: post #239
rchaud wrote: post #190

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Unless you click on a Reddit link while inside of old.reddit.com; it will then take you to that page, but show you the default 'modern' theme. Same content, just 10x slower.

You can also change settings while logged in to always default to old.reddit.com

I use a chrome plugin[1] to ensure that I always stay on old.reddit.com, even if I'm logged out.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by JoakimOA »

RileyJames wrote: post #161
kevincox wrote: post #90

Once upon a time Reddit was a link aggregator. You would post a link and the author would get credit. You could save the link without Reddit. But Reddit is moving towards first party content. Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support but many communities disallow external content. Requiring a reupload or a screenshot. This not only removes the link to the actual creator but is also a nightmare…

Maybe a coincidence, but my completely non-technical sister called me this week to pitch her ‘app idea’ (feature) “screenshots should have the link embedded in it”. And I had to explain that it’s probably not possible, except if ios or Android implemented it directly (more so iOS, I’m not up familiar with android). And ultimately that’s sad, because it should 1. Be possible to implement and 2. Should already have bee…

I created a bare-bones Firefox extension that does this but for copied text. It just appends the website URL and title to the end of the copied selection and uses Alt+Shift+C to trigger the extension.

I like saving stuff as plain text, and when stumbling upon an old quote or code snippet that I've saved it increases the chance that there is some context as to where it came from.

Here's a link to the addon, maybe someone here finds it useful.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-with-con...

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by crazygringo »

echelon wrote: post #264
crazygringo wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the case of Reddit, first-party content is better in almost every way. If I can scroll through content effortlessly, then it's easy. If I have to open each link in a new browser view/tab, ugh . Embedded images on Reddit load instantly, while loading an entire Imgur page takes forever. Not to mention that linked content is often ephemeral, whereas first-party hosting ensures it always stays viewable together with t…

And now that Reddit is attempting to capture every user they can, quality of discourse has fallen straight into the toilet. Not to mention the website constantly berates you to use the app. I'd sooner suffer link rot. I also don't appreciate the progression into carefully crafted doomscrolling. Content isn't so valuable that I'd sacrifice quality for quantity.

> quality of discourse has fallen straight into the toilet.

...?

Reddit's always been a place for memes. It's never been HN.

On the other hand, there are plenty of subreddits where quality of discourse is amazing. It's really up to you, so I don't know what you're complaining about.

> carefully crafted doomscrolling

That's an awfully perjorative way to say infinite scroll. But again, the quality is there in subreddits if you want it. Your choice. I think it's great they're able to cater to different types of users looking for different things.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by graton »

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #286
kevincox wrote: post #90

Once upon a time Reddit was a link aggregator. You would post a link and the author would get credit. You could save the link without Reddit. But Reddit is moving towards first party content. Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support but many communities disallow external content. Requiring a reupload or a screenshot. This not only removes the link to the actual creator but is also a nightmare…

I think its because browsers started hiding links, and apps started replacing websites. You have a generation of people that grew up without links, and many many more late adopters that didn't willingly use the internet until the 2010s. I had to help a friend send me a link to something a few days ago, he had no idea what I was talking about. He didn't know how to copy/paste on his iPhone, and didn't realize you coul…

> my phone doesn't have a QR reader.

It is possible it does. The default photo app on Android is a QR code reader, at least on Google Pixel phones.

I open the photo app and then point it at the QR code. After a moment or two text appears which allows me to open the QR code link.

I only realized this in the last month or two...

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