cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37402366
This is the main reason I completely ditched Reddit, if you use the new Reddit interface instead of the old one (old.reddit.com), you’ll see a constant request being made to “https://www.reddit.com/svc/shreddit/events” (open your DevTools > Network tab, can’t see on Firefox idk why).
The problem is, if you add this to your Ublock Origin filters the website won’t load properly, that’s why uBO team didn’t block it already.
You’ll notice this request isn’t only being made from a interval but also when you do basically any action in the site, like pausing or resuming a video (send timestamps of when did you pause or resumed).
It sends other kind of data like what subjects you’re seeing when closed a tab or the related subjects of a post you click, this all can be used to trace a perfect profile of you and things you like.
You can avoid that using the old.reddit but it still has the same kind of tracker, even tho you can block it here without major issues.
By my analysis, old Reddit interface does the same but to a random URL path that always starts with “reddit.com/api/something”. Ex.: reddit.com/api/friends So you can block anything that starts with “www.reddit.com/api” in your custom filters (after all you’re using old.reddit.com), then you’re mostly free from Reddit trackers (more or less). Side effect is, you won’t be able to use the chat in the old interface.
Jesus what can we do to accelerate Reddit’s demise
I just use the Opera or Brave browser for Reddit and nothing else, with the free VPN turned on.
Esoteric questions that’ve been answered on exactly one search-indexed website on the “public” internet (e.g. not Discord or forums requiring login)
:(
(This doesn’t happen for y’all essentially every single week?)
Edit: shoutout to adding farside.link/ before the reddit URL
Their network effect is pretty strong. Plenty of community information silos built up. They have paid admins mass banning bots. Their new AI search summarizes answers for your questions and sources reddit comments.
Best way forward is to ask questions outside of the walled garden
I just use reddit as reference anymore, usually through redlib. Reddit became a seething cauldron of festering carcasses a long time ago, and I have no desire to jump through all their hoops just to use their servers, much like YT and a growing number of other sites. I just don’t have the patience to reconfigure my network just so I can use those outlets. Sad tho. It used to be a decent social media platform until it wasn’t. C’est la vie. Such is the way of the internet.
Digg was good once too. These things change.
These things change.
In the words of George Harrison: All things must pass, all things must pass away
I use libredirect.github.io to not have to worry about clicking links
This is so sick, thank you!
I feel much the same, I want to completely unplug more and more with each passing day.
It may just be low blood sugar fueled pessimism but I don’t see anything actually replacing these massive sites.
It’s like trying to get into old multiplayer games where the few players left have a massive experience advantage that makes the barrier to entry impossibly high.
I think the best response is to just not participate anymore.
I’m far from that goal, hopefully enshittification will force my hand and push me offline for good.
I think the best response is to just not participate anymore.
I’ve pretty much felt that way for a very long time now. If all my efforts breaks your site, or prevents me from accessing it entirely, I just don’t bother. For one, the information is, more than likely, replicated somewhere else, if not a direct quote of the article, then pretty much the same data worded differently. It might just be a bit further down on the search page.
Such is capitalism. Plenty of stuff is still running fine without turning a profit for the shareholders.
Reddit does the courtesy of blocking my VPN so I am not tempted to use it and be tracked.
sorry to ruin your day but some privacy nuts did pro-bono work for reddit in setting up a reddit onion address. https://old.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion/
Definitely no tracking through 6 hops.
Yeah, it just sucks when that’s the majority of search engine results for something you desperately need an answer to, and there are no other sites with said information.
Not a tech person, try https://redlib.perennialte.ch/ github: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib If you don’t make comments this works fine.
Yes, redlib do the job if you want to be completely anonymous, same as Invidious.
Old.reddit.com works fine with ublock for now.
https://redlib.perennialte.ch/ is a great alternative frontend that’s not unstable
You can block it with a carefully-crafted userscript that hooks the
fetchAPI and returns fake responses for the svc event, but then Reddit starts flagging your IP address as a bot and demands you log in to an account to prove otherwise. You can’t win.Ironically the only time reddit cares about stopping bots.
If I was a bot, I’d make you a heart out of pink cardboard.
Yes, that’s what I told uBO team when I opened a discussion on their sub, they said they tried it but some functions like chat stopped working properly.
I’d try it myself but I think I really don’t care that much anymore, let it just die already.
