My reddit web viewer still works! Story: When reddit killed 3rd party apps, I uploaded a web viewer I have been using for myself to Github pages for everyone to use...

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨overdevs@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://rdx.overdevs.com/

I posted about that here and forgot < lemmy.world/post/896361> but today when I checked cloudflare analytics it showed about 1000 pageviews in last 24 hours. Looks like some people are using it so just wanted to let you guys know that it works, no ads. no popups nothing.

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mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Stop using Reddit

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- Bodongs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I would if lemmy was even close to an actual replacement.
  
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  - kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    What is it missing?
    
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- Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  There just are no alternatives to some things on there. So I’m stuck having to check in at least once every day.
  
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  - Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    “Having to”? Sounds like addiction tbh.
    
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- yuunikki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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  - mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Did you expect the fedi to be more popular? Lol
    
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  - beatlepus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    So you like fat hores.
    
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- JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I like how the other comments to you are essentially: “I use it” and “it is good”
  
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overdevs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Hey and if anyone is interested in a chrome extension to automatically redirect reddit links to this please tell me, I have made one and I am using it for myself for now, if people want it I will upload it to the extension store.

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- TheRazorX@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Definitely upload it.
  
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  - realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    While you wait, I’ve found a solution which works perfectly for me. I use the firefox extension Redirector with these settings. Now I don’t have to ignore every video on lemmit that’s hosted on Reddit because I don’t want to give them pageviews, I can just watch them on RDX instead! get all the Reddit content I want without ever actually visiting Reddit.
    
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- eee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  yes please!
  
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- FatTony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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  - PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Here is an alternative Piped link(s): piped.video/watch?v=99cVnYY9Iqs
    
    Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
    
    I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
    
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- FatTony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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  - PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Here is an alternative Piped link(s): piped.video/watch?v=99cVnYY9Iqs
    
    Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
    
    I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
    
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Mandy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
probably shouldnt advertise it too much, increasing traffic and thus making it a target for reddit to make it stop working

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realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I use lemmit. That way the reddit content comes here to Lemmy, and I have everything I want here in one place. I do have a policy to downvote any content that is hosted on reddit so I don’t have to give them a pageview. I wish I could automatically block that stuff.

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- SamboT@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I was curious about this kind of idea. Isn’t all reddit content owned by reddit, and isnt pasting their intellectual property onto a different platform not really super legal? (I fully support it)
  
  Being able to extract all of the question/answer threads on reddit to boost the value of lemmy from a search index perspective seemed too good to be true as a solution.
  
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  - flumph@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Unless Reddit’s TOS is vastly different from other social media sites, you keep ownership of your content and give them a perpetual license to host it on their site. That way, if you post something illegal, it’s still your problem and not theirs.
    
    That being said, copying non-link content is technically copyright infringement from the original poster. It’ll probably never amount to anything.
    
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  - realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Maybe too good to be true, but I’ll ride that train to the end of the line!
    
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Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Doesn’t this just direct traffic to Reddit? Why do you want to do that?

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- overdevs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Indirectly? yes. But there are some subs like r/progresspics r/gainit etc that haven’t moved to other platforms and have good content on them related to the niche the serve. Also the occasional google search that takes you to reddit.
  
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- dukk@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  No Reddit account, you aren’t using their shitty app; IDK, seems like a win to me.
  
  Reddit “traffic” doesn’t really mean or do anything for them(mainly at this scale).
  
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  - variants@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    but it could be effort towards lemmy, instead of going to reddit to see some content you can actively create content or comment on lemmy so that hopefully the content you liked on reddit will start to grow on lemmy, it takes effort but its the only way for it to work
    
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JustSomePerson@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What is the advantages of your viewer over a regular browser?

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- overdevs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  No reddit popups, ads, banners, faster, easier, only focuses on the content.
  
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  - JustSomePerson@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    An application for every website. Each "focusing on the content". All that does is move the browsing to the OS.
    
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Chemical_Buns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ve been using this since third party apps went down, thank you! Unfortunately videos haven’t had audio in a while but I still much prefer it over the official site.

Also a way to export/import subscriptions would be helpful for use on other devices or browsers.

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- overdevs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Videos will have audio tomorrow. If reddit provides a way to export subscriptions I will implement the import function.
  
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  - Chemical_Buns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Awesome! I didn’t mean exporting subscriptions from a reddit account but from rdx itself. I was thinking that the list of subscriptions that appears when you press the + button could be exportable if possible.
    
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eee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
thanks, I’m one of those who use your viewer! it makes viewing content much more bearable on mobile. I only wish there were a way to redirect all reddit links to your site on mobile.

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beeb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
No content is loading for me

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- overdevs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It just sends one xhr request to reddit. Unless you have blocked reddit or disabled javascript it should work. Can you please right click > inspect element > console and paste the output here.
  
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  - SteveTech@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Using Firefox with private browsing, I get this:
    
    Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://www.reddit.com/r/all/.json?limit=20. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null). The resource at “https://www.reddit.com/r/all/.json?limit=20” was blocked because content blocking is enabled. rdx.overdevs.com
    
    Works fine in normal mode though.
    
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  - beeb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I haven’t blocked reddit and can access it just fine. I’m not sure how to inspect the source on Firefox mobile though.
    
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- NoRodent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Neither for me, just a blank page with a header.
  
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  - overdevs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Can you please right click > inspect element > console and paste the output here.
    
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- byrona@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah same here on ff mobile. Works fine on chrome. I don’t think there is a console on the mobile version?
  
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Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Relay (the last 3rd party app, I believe) still works too. They were supposed to start charging but I check in every once in awhile (because it’s unfortunately still one of the best websites to get an honest answer to a question written by a human) and haven’t paid a cent.

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- Syntha@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Infinity worked until 2 days ago for me
  
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  - Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Relay’s still working
    
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harry315@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Wow, that’s super awesome! Bookmarked immediately

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Xandar437@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Thank you

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Gto@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Nice

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FatTony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I get 403 errors in the network analyzer for all of the audio files. In other words, I cannot get the sound for videos to work.

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- overdevs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I will fix the audio tonight.
  
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  - FatTony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Cool! Take your sweet time btw. Tomorrow, next year, next big bang. Sall good.
    
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