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I personally stop browsing Reddit and Twitter when their fuck-you-banners appear. I have accounts with both, but installing the app or logging in is usually mor

I personally stop browsing Reddit and Twitter when their fuck-you-banners appear. I have accounts with both, but installing the app or logging in is usually more friction than accessing the content is worth. ... So thanks for keeping my periods of distraction very short! Maybe they just care about their users' mental health and are sacrificing their engagement for it :)

choward 4y ago
The default Reddit web site on desktop is excruciating enough to use. On mobile it's unusable. I only use old.reddit.com. If that ever went away I would never visit Reddit again.
- RexM 4y ago
  Apollo on iOS is great if you’re looking for a Reddit app that doesn’t suck. Not sure if you’re on iOS though.
- woojoo666 4y ago
  Might be worth checking out libredirect [1] which I use on desktop and mobile to automatically redirect reddit links to privacy-respecting front-ends like libreddit and teddit. Also since I have it on my default browser on Android, even if I open a reddit link from, say, a hackernews app, the popup webview will use my default browser which will in turn automatically redirect to libreddit/teddit. I never have to worry about seeing reddit's annoying web app, never have to worry about giving reddit my data. (old.reddit.com still does give reddit data, and from my experience Reddit does a lot of tracking IPs + working with google + traffic correlation to figure out what stuff you browse. However if you still prefer old reddit, libredirect does provide an option to automatically redirect to old.reddit.com instead of libreddit or teddit) [1]: https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
romwell 4y ago
>I personally stop browsing Reddit and Twitter when their fuck-you-banners appears That's what https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com is for. Simply prepending "old." to the reddit link makes everything work better. Works on mobile and desktop, just as it always had. And no fuck-you banners.
- marssaxman 4y ago
  There's also https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/ for mobile devices.

choward 4y ago

The default Reddit web site on desktop is excruciating enough to use. On mobile it's unusable. I only use old.reddit.com. If that ever went away I would never visit Reddit again.

RexM 4y ago
Apollo on iOS is great if you’re looking for a Reddit app that doesn’t suck. Not sure if you’re on iOS though.
woojoo666 4y ago
Might be worth checking out libredirect [1] which I use on desktop and mobile to automatically redirect reddit links to privacy-respecting front-ends like libreddit and teddit. Also since I have it on my default browser on Android, even if I open a reddit link from, say, a hackernews app, the popup webview will use my default browser which will in turn automatically redirect to libreddit/teddit. I never have to worry about seeing reddit's annoying web app, never have to worry about giving reddit my data. (old.reddit.com still does give reddit data, and from my experience Reddit does a lot of tracking IPs + working with google + traffic correlation to figure out what stuff you browse. However if you still prefer old reddit, libredirect does provide an option to automatically redirect to old.reddit.com instead of libreddit or teddit) [1]: https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect

romwell 4y ago

>I personally stop browsing Reddit and Twitter when their fuck-you-banners appears That's what https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com is for. Simply prepending "old." to the reddit link makes everything work better. Works on mobile and desktop, just as it always had. And no fuck-you banners.

marssaxman 4y ago
There's also https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/ for mobile devices.