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

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Post by cma »

Rackedup wrote: post #29
MengerSponge wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> But to be able to use them on Firefox Android, you have to use an addon collection.

How does this work?

Edit: seems only for FF nightly so far?

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

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Post by didericis »

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #27
xqcgrek2 wrote: post #20

It'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.

I think reddit still allows you to turn subreddits into rss feeds, which seems like a better way to consume content without the distractions.

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

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Post by nend »

Comevius wrote: post #10

They are A/B testing the login requirement at the moment. Unfortunately logging in is also a nightmare on Reddit, with distracting content continuously flying in your face.

Yes, they're A/B testing multiple things with NSFW content. Up until recently I was in the "you must use the mobile app instead of mobile site to see nsfw content" group. I'm not sure exactly when that changed for me, maybe a week or so ago, but I no longer have that requirement anyway.

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

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Post by js2 »

MengerSponge wrote: post #22
JLCarveth wrote: post #11

Earlier 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 iOS/macOS StopTheMadness Safari extension can automatically replace URLs, among other things.

https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/

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

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Post by Sakos »

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.

If you pay close attention, you might notice that the email address field isn't required on the old.reddit.com signup popup. Press next without filling it in and you get the username/password part of registration.

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

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Post by grumple »

n4bz0r wrote: post #37
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?

Throwaway accounts that can't be easily linked to the poster are essential to a number of reddit communities.

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

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Post by LinuxBender »

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 .

PrivacyRedirect [1] is a nice multi-purpose addon for this in my opinion. Most of the redirects can be easily customized and all of them can individually be enabled/disabled. It also has multiple nitter/teddit proxies defined for the times they get overloaded.

Redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives - Nitter, Invidious, Bibliogram, & OpenStreetMap.

When the time comes that addons do not get around such things, then I would suggest BlockSite [2]

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...

[2] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-website...

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

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Post by croutonwagon »

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.

That must be a recent change. Because at least as recently as early this year, you could just click "continue" while leaving the email field blank and create an account.
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