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caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Reddit keeps asking me to use their app and they are very clearly making the mobile browser version worse and worse.
Just last week I couldn’t view a thread I found on Google without signing in. It wasn’t adult content and didn’t require verifying my age. The reason given was very vague and had something to do with the content not being vetted (despite being old).

The Reddit garden wall is already here and is currently being rolled out. For your own good, of course.

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brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Probably this:

“Unreviewed Content
This community has not been reviewed and might contain content inappropriate for certain viewers. View in the Reddit app to continue.”

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Knew I could find it by searching for an in-theaters film followed by “DVD rip reddit”. Behold / old reddit link.

The sub exists to funnel people to a single TinyUrl. Checking the preview instead, I expect it (123movieshd dot club) is a malware distributor.

While reddit’s tactic is coercive, it also functions as a lazy way to fight the reach/effectiveness of spammers.

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Juvyn00b@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Replace the beginning of the url with old.reddit.com. this will get you in.

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- caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sure, for now. They won’t keep that up forever.
  
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  - Juvyn00b@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Agreed, but it’s been working now for longer than I originally expected. I wonder if some part of their choice base totally relies on that being available…
    
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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah it’s true. Too bad. Bye reddit.

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AWittyUsername@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Use Firefox and there are extensions that block the app request popup. Or you could use tampermonkey or something similar to do it.

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- caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I bet that doesn’t work with the login requirements.
  
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  - SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The page still loads behind it, usually, there’s just a popup keeping you from accessing it. So I don’t see how they could stop you from just… removing the popup.
    
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    caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Sure, to see a few top-level replies. That’s another part of it, you’ve got to click “see more” several times in order to see every branch of the conversation. None of that is hidden behind the overlay element.
    
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