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I don't actually use Reddit or Twitter, but I sometimes come across NSFW posts from links. I've found that old.reddit.com seems to allow you to bypass the filte

by jchw 1y ago

I don't actually use Reddit or Twitter, but I sometimes come across NSFW posts from links. I've found that old.reddit.com seems to allow you to bypass the filter(s) without needing an account. For Twitter, I tend to use the xcancel.com Nitter instance, though there are other Nitter instances that work fine. Bonus for using Nitter here, you can also see the latest posts from an account instead of the most popular posts, and see replies/interactions to individual tweets. Oh, and it gives you plain HTML. Reddit pisses me off so much that despite the fact that I don't even use Reddit, just so that my experience sucks less when I'm linked to Reddit or have another reason to lurk it, - I use the "Old Reddit Redirect" extension to force the browser to go to old reddit - I use the "Load Reddit Images Directly" extension to bypass Reddit's hideous image viewer that tries to load if your browser makes the mistake of having text/html in the "Accept" headers when opening an image in a new tab. (Dear Firefox/Chrome/etc: maybe stop doing that? If I open an image in a new tab, there is a zero percent chance I want HTML.)

peterpost2 1y ago
The bypass via old.reddit.com stopped working today as well.
- Normal_gaussian 1y ago
  I just googled 'top nsfw Reddit' and aside from some disturbing implications of 'top' all opened fine with 'old.'. The IP is UK based, is coming up as UK on all geoip sites I tried and is in all of the last 30days of maxmind as UK based. It might be some kind of phased rollout of course.
  - jchw 1y ago
    Oops, I should note that I'm a U.S. citizen in a state without any porn age gate laws. I have no idea what the status of using old.reddit.com to bypass the NSFW filter is in other jurisdictions, or honestly even my own (not sure how to test it.) All I know for sure is that it worked last time I tried it.
gh02t 1y ago
Is the reddit equivalent of xcancel/nitter (i.e., redlib https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib) also blocked? Presumably if the instance is hosted outside the UK it would work since I think it effectively proxies your requests.
godelski 1y ago
Reddit is also very aggressive at blocking VPNs. Mullvad is constantly blocked. Occasionally I'll turn it off, but Reddit is just a terrible place so I usually go elsewhere (I'm only going because of Google search results. I'd rather use an LLM than turn off my vpn for Reddit)
- dymk 1y ago
  Interesting, are you using any particular exit country for Mullvad? I’ve used Canada and never ran into Reddit blocking it.
  - godelski 1y ago
    Mostly US and Sweden. I'll give Canada a go. Thanks for the suggestion
varenc 1y ago
> - I use the "Old Reddit Redirect" extension to force the browser to go to old reddit if you make a Reddit account, you can flip an obscure setting so that www.reddit.com serves the same site as old.reddit.com
- jchw 1y ago
  I used to have one, but I don't anymore and personally I think if they ever force everyone onto new reddit I will probably just not follow reddit.com links anymore (or use a proxy that is less annoying, if those prove reliable enough.)
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by jchw 1y ago

peterpost2 1y ago

The bypass via old.reddit.com stopped working today as well.

Normal_gaussian 1y ago
I just googled 'top nsfw Reddit' and aside from some disturbing implications of 'top' all opened fine with 'old.'. The IP is UK based, is coming up as UK on all geoip sites I tried and is in all of the last 30days of maxmind as UK based. It might be some kind of phased rollout of course.
- jchw 1y ago
  Oops, I should note that I'm a U.S. citizen in a state without any porn age gate laws. I have no idea what the status of using old.reddit.com to bypass the NSFW filter is in other jurisdictions, or honestly even my own (not sure how to test it.) All I know for sure is that it worked last time I tried it.

gh02t 1y ago

Is the reddit equivalent of xcancel/nitter (i.e., redlib https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib) also blocked? Presumably if the instance is hosted outside the UK it would work since I think it effectively proxies your requests.

godelski 1y ago

Reddit is also very aggressive at blocking VPNs. Mullvad is constantly blocked. Occasionally I'll turn it off, but Reddit is just a terrible place so I usually go elsewhere (I'm only going because of Google search results. I'd rather use an LLM than turn off my vpn for Reddit)

dymk 1y ago
Interesting, are you using any particular exit country for Mullvad? I’ve used Canada and never ran into Reddit blocking it.
- godelski 1y ago
  Mostly US and Sweden. I'll give Canada a go. Thanks for the suggestion

varenc 1y ago

> - I use the "Old Reddit Redirect" extension to force the browser to go to old reddit if you make a Reddit account, you can flip an obscure setting so that www.reddit.com serves the same site as old.reddit.com

jchw 1y ago
I used to have one, but I don't anymore and personally I think if they ever force everyone onto new reddit I will probably just not follow reddit.com links anymore (or use a proxy that is less annoying, if those prove reliable enough.)

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