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So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by SoftTalker »

voakbasda wrote: post #140
teeray wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really wish there was a way for the electorate to preempt the votes of their representatives, so this kind of lobbying would be less effective. Sure, they might try carpet bombing the airwaves with PSA campaigns, but if the people really really don’t want what the lobbyist is selling, they would still be able to rip the ballot out of their congress critter’s hands and change the vote.

I would settle for representatives that actually represented the interests of the people rather than those of the wealthiest and their corporations.

They arent there to represent the interests of the people. Rather, the people vote for representatives whose positions they agree with.

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Post by duxup »

valiant55 wrote: post #217
aucisson_masque wrote: post #191

I think at this point I'm ready to give up on Reddit, most of my questions are already answered by LLM. And the discussions quality on Reddit are abysmal, its filled with bots.

A lot of the programming adjacent subreddits have been post after post of weekend vibe coded projects. It's become really exhausting how easy it is to turn out a new wheel that's going to get abandoned in a few weeks at best.

Yeah the software related subs are worthless now. All spam.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by coffeefirst »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #322
whycome wrote: post #286

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Looking at the conversations tied to movie fandoms has been fascinating. People treat movie franchises like a religion.

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If you think that’s bad casting, I’ve got some bad news: the guy who plays the cyclops has two eyes.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by SilverElfin »

galleywest200 wrote: post #284

I don't buy the “scraping” protection when appending .json to any reddit URL still gives you the data. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/comments/1v3mzl6/what_is_t...

Didn’t they just say they’re removing this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1tq9vxo/protecting...

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Post by rmunn »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #317
garciasn wrote: post #316

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Their users and those users data are the product; you are insignificant in the eyes of their shareholders.

You don’t seem to understand. It isn’t about me. Or even people like me. Slowly they kill themselves. It might not even be obvious to people, but they’ll slowly turn away at this or the next thing or the next one after that. I’ll be here long after Reddit at this rate. MySpace seemed like the shit until you put Facebook next to it. Does anyone think Reddit is the shit in 2026? And that is without anything put next to…

The word "the" is doing a lot of work in your last paragraph. I initially missed seeing the word "the", and that changed the meaning entirely for me. Observe:

> MySpace seemed like shit until you put Facebook next to it.

This sentence would be claiming that MySpace was a lousy experience, but Facebook was even worse. Which would make it hard to explain why people jumped ship.

> MySpace seemed like the shit until you put Facebook next to it.

What you actually wrote claimed that MySpace seemed great, but then Facebook was even better. Which makes it easy to explain why people jumped ship.

I don't have an actual point to make about MySpace or Facebook. (I never used MySpace, and only used Facebook once, two decades ago, because the social group I was in at the time was using Facebook as their only means of announcing events — once I moved to a different town I dropped Facebook and closed my account). I just wanted to comment about the grammatical structure of that sentence, because I thought it was fascinating. The word "the" is so often mere filler, which could be omitted and the sentence would still be perfectly understandable. (Hence why many languages, such as Russian, don't have the word "the" at all). But here's a counterexample to that general rule, a sentence where omitting one since instance of the word "the" inverted the meaning.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by chrisweekly »

rmunn wrote: post #336
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #317

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don’t seem to understand. It isn’t about me. Or even people like me. Slowly they kill themselves. It might not even be obvious to people, but they’ll slowly turn away at this or the next thing or the next one after that. I’ll be here long after Reddit at this rate. MySpace seemed like the shit until you put Facebook next to it. Does anyone think Reddit is the shit in 2026? And that is without anything put next to…

The word "the" is doing a lot of work in your last paragraph. I initially missed seeing the word "the", and that changed the meaning entirely for me. Observe: > MySpace seemed like shit until you put Facebook next to it. This sentence would be claiming that MySpace was a lousy experience, but Facebook was even worse. Which would make it hard to explain why people jumped ship. > MySpace seemed like the shit until you…

Yes! You're gonna love Ismo (the Finnish standup who pokes fun at quirks of the English language). This bit^1 on the word "shit" was the first I saw of him online. I've since seen him live and, I guess if you know, you know. Genius.

1. https://youtu.be/ifNEgwGACEQ?is=cJHqXIkZVqgmt4iO

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by chrismarlow9 »

mrandish wrote: post #304
20k wrote: post #293

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They're just trying to manufacture a reason to kill off old reddit. Someone internally clearly hates the fact that its still quite popular, despite all the efforts to make it unusable so far

The day they kill off old.reddit.com is the last time I'll visit Reddit (after >15 years, >7,000 comments & >70,000 karma). Old.reddit, the Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), custom userstyle CSS and uBlock make Reddit tolerable. Admittedly, Reddit might be fine with losing me because I only ever see the small niche subs I'm subscribed to, most have less than 100K subs and none have more than a million. I haven't seen t…

Ditto

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by jonathanlb »

victor9000 wrote: post #321
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #302

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New Reddit for my phone has decided to put a bottom popup forcing me to the app. The second old goes away I’ll never go that site again except for search results. I ADORE that a publicly traded tech giant is so fucking stupid.

UBlock Origin can clear those on FF mobile with one of the Annoyances lists

If you're on iOS, you're out of luck. FF extensions aren't supported.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by dyauspitr »

When I’m browsing, reddit on my iphone on Safari, when the little pop-up shows up that tells you to use the app it completely locks up Safari (it doesn’t hang) I can’t change tabs, bring up the back control buttons or do anything else except exit out of Safari how are they doing that?
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