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Re: Tell HN: Reddit mandatory login to see sensitive pages

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Post by bcraven »

Tenoke wrote: post #25
frakt0x90 wrote: post #16

On 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.

Updates break the 'open with' selection. Simply re-enable RIF to open *.Reddit links its app settings.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit mandatory login to see sensitive pages

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Post by Pigalowda »

ekianjo wrote: post #26
bennysomething wrote: post #18

Use 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.

You paying anyone at Mozilla to do that work? If you are - then gripe away

Re: Tell HN: Reddit mandatory login to see sensitive pages

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Post by shreyshnaccount »

frakt0x90 wrote: post #16

On 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.

also some links on the app open up the website inside the app and then that redirects to the app again it's crazytown

Re: Tell HN: Reddit mandatory login to see sensitive pages

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Post by bdw5204 »

hbn wrote: post #23
bennysomething wrote: post #18

Use 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.

The day they shut down "old" Reddit is probably the day a large number of people leave Reddit altogether because the main Reddit site is a dark patterns hell. I think they'll still do it though because most web sites only want the kind of users who don't know how to install ad blockers.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit mandatory login to see sensitive pages

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Post by Sebb767 »

hbn wrote: post #23
bennysomething wrote: post #18

Use 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.

I highly doubt that. Every single time Reddit comes up here, people complain and complain, but also share old.reddit.com as a work-around instead of actually leaving Reddit. It's a perfect way of keeping the hardcore users addicted while having a modern, instant-gratification interface for the majority. They know what happened to Digg, so far I don't see any indication that they're going to repeat this mistake.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit mandatory login to see sensitive pages

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Post by n4bz0r »

NowhereMan wrote: post #28

On 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.

I would've never guessed it's still possible to create an account without using an email or a phone on any site in 2022.

Makes me wonder, why do they keep the functionality? Did they forget about the page?

Re: Tell HN: Reddit mandatory login to see sensitive pages

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Post by frank_nitti »

xqcgrek2 wrote: post #20

It's best to just entirely avoid reddit and other low quality social media.

I can’t tell if Reddit was actually better when I started using it ~10 years ago, or if I was just more entertained by the novelty of it.

It still does have the important distinction from true “social media” sites that are based around who you add/follow, but they have made some incredibly poor decisions with the platform trying to be less of what made it great and instead trying to blend in with the trendy influencer platforms du jour

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