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

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Post by AshamedCaptain »

pseudo0 wrote: post #77
AshamedCaptain wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, not really. Open _any_ video thread from the frontpage from yesterday and you will find multiple references to savevideo, getvideobot, downloadvideo, etc. All of them are different, competing bots participating in this spam race. Not to mention websites where there is no karma or equivalent (e.g. Twitter) and you just can't skip the spam to threadunroller or videodownloader or whatever.

Top video result from the last week - https://old.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/ogu570/the_traitor/ One bot with +70 that's somewhat visible, a couple just barely above the "load more comments" filter with +3. #2 result - https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ofl4jt/i_... No bots without clicking to load more comments. Really though it's the fault of Reddit (or Twitter, ...) for deliberately disabling user…

Even on the link you just shared I already see 3 messages, without expanding any link.

u/getvideobot u/RedditMP4Bot u/redditmp4bot

When I expand for comments, I basically see _all_ of the bots mentioned.

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

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Post by Bronze_Colossus »

haunter wrote: post #71
Theizestooke wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The niche subreddits are still valuable to me, particularly stuff like r/emacs and r/AskHistorians

>and r/AskHistorians You mean [deleted]

/r/AskHistorians like /r/AskScience are and retain a high quality due to the moderation efforts by the volunteer moderators. Deleting unsourced claims and jokes is for me a good thing.

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

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Post by willis936 »

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…

In the case of person-to-person: links decay but screenshots do not. A screenshot is a record that I know doesn't have any trackers and won't one day disappear. It's the information that I want to send and nothing more.

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

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Post by dmm »

alichapman wrote: post #54
herbst wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO Reddit got a lot more hostile in the small communities I were part of when the PC stuff started and many negative subs got banned without warning. Could be selection bias. But agreed the websites updates are horrible in every single way. I can't think of one new feature that did not make things worse, the only way I can use Reddit is adding the old. Subdomain manually every time

You can use one of these addons below to always redirect to the old subdomain. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

Be careful with browser extensions. The edge old reddit redirect extension was malware and because they autoupdate your safety is dependent on the extension author refusing near-daily offers to sell out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27305638

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

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Post by reustle »

thinkingemote wrote: post #45
reustle wrote: post #41

This reminds me to nuke my Reddit account of 14 years. This extension edits each comment/post to be blank, and then deletes them. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nuke-reddit-histor...

theres a limit for time (6 months?) for these via the website, and via the API theres a limit of 2000 or so latest comments, with no way to get the list of latest comments re-populated from older ones when your comments do get deleted. (They basically have a cassandra db for all the latest stuff, and an read only db for the old stuff. So the live db never gets updated from the old db.) What this means is that your a…

Do you have a source on this? I'd love to read more.

It has already been running for a while now, and has gone back >4 years. I'm able to go in manually as well and modify / delete old comments. I've checked via incognito that they are actually modified, and then deleted.

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

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Post by AshamedCaptain »

alichapman wrote: post #54
herbst wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO Reddit got a lot more hostile in the small communities I were part of when the PC stuff started and many negative subs got banned without warning. Could be selection bias. But agreed the websites updates are horrible in every single way. I can't think of one new feature that did not make things worse, the only way I can use Reddit is adding the old. Subdomain manually every time

You can use one of these addons below to always redirect to the old subdomain. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

There is also the problem that the formatting syntax is actually slightly different between old.reddit and new reddit, causing a number of broken messages when browsing with the old.reddit.

I absolutely detest that, specially since they have put a giant loginwall in the mobile version of the new reddit which basically forces me to use the old.reddit. These practices are basically what I expect from a shady website, not one of the most popular ones. Reddit is really detestable and I wish we could do something to stop it from acquiring users.

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

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Post by pjc50 »

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 wonder why sharing of links is so unpopular, especially outside of the tech-sphere

Spam.

The target site may be spammy: lots of adverts, popup/unders, taboola "chumboxes" etc.

Or, if a site can make money from inbound link traffic, there's an incentive for its owners to spam links in subreddits to drive traffic to themselves.

> This is especially bad on apps where you need to know how to find the share option separately on each app

Definitely another problem, walled gardens that you can't link into as well as out of.

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

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Post by discordance »

pantulis wrote: post #79
Theizestooke wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The niche subreddits are still valuable to me, particularly stuff like r/emacs and r/AskHistorians

One thing that amazes with Reddit is how some subreddits are pure gold and others are basically crap.

Sorry if this sounds obvious, but it’s the people within the subs that make it or break it.

Some subs just don’t have those active people that make it gold.

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

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Post by AshamedCaptain »

marapuru wrote: post #35
AshamedCaptain wrote: post #26

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I have literally _a toolbar button_ in my Android web browser that downloads the video of any page that I'm viewing right now. How can there be anything more convenient than that? But your comparison is extremely flawed anyway. E.g. "Fumble on your mobile keyboard to type the address of your preferred save video service." Even if you claim not to know how to use bookmarks, you still have history. Basically, the "unco…

So what's your toolbar button? A custom script/extension? Or a downloaded extension?

Yes, it is an extension. But you could also have a bookmarklet, for example.

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

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Post by rozab »

ffffffg wrote: post #68
kwinten wrote: post #63

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You're aware there is a difference between discrimination and categorization, right?

How does it apply in this case? The "truelesbians" subreddit wanted a place where biological females could discuss lesbian issues with biological females. This was not allowed by Reddit. The "lesbians" subreddit is a place where exclusively biological females are portrayed in sexually stimulating activity with each other (mostly for male subscribers to ejaculate to). This is allowed by Reddit. Both of these involve d…

How many throways do you get through each day? Can you go attempt to fan the flames of culture war somewhere else?
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