Been that way since the api exodus
Comment on Pre-IPO Reddit lets ads be dressed up as promoted user posts
50_centavos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
More of their bullshitery. I had the audacity to use my browser to click a reddit link.
archomrade@midwest.social 3 months ago
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yup, they’re forcing people towards the app because it allows them to collect telemetry data. Your browser walls them off so they can’t data mine your device, but the app gives them full control.
spiderplant@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Old.reddit still works
T156@lemmy.world 3 months ago
As does putting
.ion the end, to use the compact interface.The links are a bit spotty nowadays, and some of the newer features don’t work quite right, but it otherwise works a treat for most things.
Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 3 months ago
That’s the true feature
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Just curious, because typing Reddit in at the end of searches magically makes the exact niche result you need appear, how do you open a post in old Reddit?
PeroBasta@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There are FF addons that can do that for you. Otherwise you have to manually change the www into old.
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Oh really that easy
Someone else mentioned front ends to limit tracking and stuff so imma check that out too
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
I’d be more likely to recommend you install a plugin like libredirect and use an alternative frontend to Reddit like libreddit. Get visibility into posts, spread your load across three alternative front end instances to avoid rate limiting, starve reddit of the tracking data they’re trying to direct people to their preferred front end for
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Other than libreddit got any recommendations for the other two?
ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
uBO can bypass it too, if you don’t want to have to deal with old.reddit on mobile.