Same if they say to disable your ad blocker.
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I love when they give you instructions on how to disable it. Lol, fuck you, website.
or if they try to guilt-trip you into disabling the ad blocker with a frowny face or something.
Every time you block an ad, a puppy gets hit by a truck. Is that really what you want?
:(
Technically, I don’t block ads. I block trackers using privacy badger. If they were to just show me ads without trying to track me I’d be fine and they’d get some ad revenue. But they always put trackers in there, I see no ads and they get no money.
Ad creators hate this one weird trick!
Just a heads up, privacy badger effectively doesn’t do anything besides take up resources and make you slightly more fingerprintable as compared to simply using ublock. All of its useful behaviors were culled a few years ago, funny enough, due to fingerprinting. Its blocklist is severely out of date.
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Is that really what you want?
If that is really what you want, can we interest you in our special premium membership with curated run-over-puppies content?
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Trust is broken. Ads have been abused where I have to block by default unless I already trust your website.
I'm not risking malware for some strangers advertisements.
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That's when bab-defuser.js and the element zapper get to shine.
I recently got “this content is unverified, please open in our app to continue” from a Google search that lead to a random Reddit thread. Nope not gonna do that. I think I found a workable solution on stack overflow after that
You can change the url from www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com to bypass that 😉
The day old reddit I gone is the day it is officially dead. Reddit is appealing to the insta audience now and it sucks. I've talked to so many people who only recently discovered reddit and they have no idea that discussion used to drive the site. It's a picture browsing site for them. The site is going down the tubes quickly so it can do an IPO I guess.
Not only did discussion used to drive that site, but thriving niche communities. I hired a young-ish (~25) webdev recently and he asked where I heard about a certain topic. I told him reddit and he was genuinely confused. I sent him links to r/webdev, r/selfhosted, r/sysadmin, r/datahoarder, and a handful of other recommendations. His mind was blown that reddit not only had those communities, but how deep the content was.
My point is, reddit has really leaned into the lowest common denominator audience to chase growth and has completely abandoned its nerd roots (most evidently by its API policy changes).
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I also go to the browser drop down settings and change to desktop mode. It's annoying but once you zoom in a little it's identical to mobile view lol.
not just reddit. any site like that is a no go.
The worst is when companies and resutrants use "Instagram" or "Facebook" as their official webpage.
There's a restaurant where I live that I've never gone to because I can't book it without giving fuckerburg my data
You should vocalize it to the owner (or at least management) if you can. You'd be surprised what comes of it.
I did this once with a restaurant/bar owner, and she was very understanding. Once I took the time to explain how I didn't wanna be subjected to everything that a setup like that brings, she empathized and actually got a standalone website.
Many people aren't aware until you make em aware. And whether they feel the same or not from a consumer standpoint, at least they'll know that there's people out there who do care, and it affects business. And usually, if it affects business, it doesn't matter what their personal feelings towards it are. A good business owner will be sure to adjust because they learned something new about the market.
even worse is any deals are on downloaded apps. F that. The only good effect for me with that is its an effective way to identify and avoid corporate type institutions as they are top in using it.
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Lol is this actually what’s going on over there now?
Is spez reading from the Musk playbook?
Will it be called xeddit.com next?
They aren't fully auth-gating the comments yet. You can view the first 5-8 top-level comments and 2-3 comments deep on each parent. Overall, I find myself spending probably 1/5 of the time on a thread that I used to.
EDIT - This is on the mobile browser view.
Overall, I find myself spending probably 1/5 of the time on a thread that I used to.
Same here. And when I do go there I don't engage with it at all anymore. No posting comments, no posting threads, no up or down voting anything. On mobile I don't use the site at all anymore since Boost for Lemmy got released. Fuck em.
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old reddit still works. For now.
Did I miss something? Or just a joke about the future of reddit because obviously they will go for it at some point.
When I go to a subreddit a popup appears over similar to those news sites asking me to either login or open in app. So it's kinda the present
That's for NSFW communities. Since the protests, quite a lot of communities are still marked as NSFW, even if they're not, in reality.
If you’re on mobile it will happen when you just search a question on google, no matter the subreddit
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Time for a 10 minute mail and 123456 as a password. Take that bullshit website!
Imagine creating an account just so you can find out how to fix an issue you're having and then instantly deleting your account after seeing all the nazi shit on the front page.
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Discord is already there. (Please don't tell me, it's an app. You can use it via web perfectly fine.)
You can use it via web perfectly fine
Except when they demand your phone number for access. Pathetic service.
Often times (not always) you can had archive.is/ between the https:// and the www to get access to it.
Also works when there is a paywall.
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There's a userscript, 'old reddit redirect'.
You mean Twitter right? Reddit is still plenty open.
Old reddit is still open, new reddit and the mobile site have been locked down for a while now.
Give them a couple weeks
Even worse if you take your time, register with 10min mail and the content is not what you are looking for
Byeeeee
Yep... every time.
I can still browse without an account.
Depends on the sub. r/Ukraine is set to NSFW, so they require an account to "verify" for some reason.
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