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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit who?

If I can't browse my way, I simply don't use the site.

If reddit pops up in a search result on my browser, wellll best believe I have multiple adblockers making sure their ads don't load.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (7 children)

And every time a Reddit results show up, I'm immediately reminded why I don't want to go there by an error telling me that I can't use the site without logging in.

Fortunately, just changing the link to old.reddit.com still works even through VPN, but fuck this behavior. I do that only for questions I really need an answer and couldn't find anywhere else, and most of the time the replies are shit anyway.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Hate any results from Twitter as well.

Log in, log in, tell us who you are!

Fuck you. I never made an account when it wasn't run by a thin-skinned narcissistic man-child, and I'm not about to start now.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I honestly can’t believe they haven’t killed old.reddit yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I imagine there is a reason, and only they can see the numbers...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God, I hate infantile, "quirky" messages. Same shit with discord, but at least discord is useful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When did discord become useful?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

When I idiot friends couldn't figure out anything better. At least we're not using Skype anymore.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

When they implemented in-channel streaming

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's probably more to do with using a VPN than not being logged in. If I'm searching for something on a search engine and Reddit comes up in the results with potentially useful information, then I'll go there (the only time I go there now). I don't use a VPN and I'm never logged in, and I've never seen that page come up.

Which makes sense, because those greedy bastards are trying to hyper-monetize the content. And pesky VPNs make it difficult for them to harvest useful visitors info and/or throw tons of partially targeted ads on the poor user's screen.

Still good info on how to avoid it for the people who do encounter that annoying error page. So thanks for comparing that tidbit of knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fwiw I use ProtonVPN and I've never seen that message before; I browse mostly on mobile, but do on the full-site too (lemmy's nsfw communities are a barren wasteland for what I'm looking for). Both logged in and not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, it's a VPN. If I turn it off, it works properly even in the same browser (Mullvad). But I refuse to cave in, so if they every start checking for VPNs even in the old Reddit, or disable it altogehter (which I'm sure will be soon, since you can also use it to bypass "Log in to see NSFW content"), I'm out for good, and will finally block Reddit at my Kagi.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

If you use Firefox, get the Redirector extension and add a rule that automatically redirects reddit.com/* to old.reddit.com/$1.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the tip I didn't know that 🙂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I just use a browser addon to always use old reddit.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Right?

In-between comments are ads.

Under every post is a recommendation for other subreddits where the last update was 2-3 weeks ago.

Subreddits with clear bait clog up the front page, and no filters to remove them.

Top comments are jokes and memes.

It's a real shit experience on Reddit right now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of those issues went over here pretty quick too.

I feel we have a lot of the faux intellectual crowd who thought 5-10 years ago they were better than other for using reddit.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nonsense. Most of us thought that at least 10 years ago. Reddit didn’t start going downhill hard until the 2016 US primaries, when /r/conspiracy went from semi-interesting headcannon to full on Trump worship over the span of a week. Then we realized what we were in for but it was like watching a car crash into a dumpster fire.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Watching meme subreddit the_donald go from a fun playground to a serious army of defenders was my wakeup call

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Dude the Donald was hilarious until it wasn't anymore so much great shit posting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The death knell of the site was when they quarantined TD and all the crazies started migrating into the other places of reddit. After it became a cult TD pulled people onto the site who had no other reason to be there. All the people long term redditors were trying to avoid by not using facebook were now all over the site

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Obligatory recommendation for uBlock Origin and Firefox :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

IFunny is unironically better