Reddit makes browsing without account harder and harder. I assume the end goal is a walled unindexable garden like Facebook or Discord.
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Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoyou could probably also just open that on a private tab right?
misk@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I don’t really get why this solution isn’t used much or even suggested. I mean fetching the data without an account is a foolproof way to detect shadowbanning and silent removals. Frankly I’m surprised no one has simply made an extension or tool to do it automatically.
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misk@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I assume those who were interested enough could whip out a script to do that easily until Reddit disabled API which is the moment I lost interest in the platform. I don’t know how people do it these days without getting accounts suspended for automated traffic but it’s something you have to consider and probably the reasons why such tools are not available widely.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I mean web scraping also exists and scraper based Reddit frontends have been and still are a thing. Also using accounts API isn’t ideal since they can figure out that an account is being used to look at stuff like that and either suspend it or worse just make shadowbans visible and not apparent to that account.
Can’t so easily fuck with a web scraper or tool just looking at the raw web page data.
misk@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Redlib does that but it’s a game of cat and mouse these days. Facebook fought off web scrapers and while Reddit is much less technically competent they’ll get there too eventually.