Same if they say to disable your ad blocker.
I love when they give you instructions on how to disable it. Lol, fuck you, website.
or if they try to guilt-trip you into disabling the ad blocker with a frowny face or something.
Every time you block an ad, a puppy gets hit by a truck. Is that really what you want?
:(
Technically, I don’t block ads. I block trackers using privacy badger. If they were to just show me ads without trying to track me I’d be fine and they’d get some ad revenue. But they always put trackers in there, I see no ads and they get no money.
Ad creators hate this one weird trick!
Is that really what you want?
If that is really what you want, can we interest you in our special premium membership with curated run-over-puppies content?
That’s when
bab-defuser.jsand the element zapper get to shine.Trust is broken. Ads have been abused where I have to block by default unless I already trust your website.
I’m not risking malware for some strangers advertisements.
I recently got “this content is unverified, please open in our app to continue” from a Google search that lead to a random Reddit thread. Nope not gonna do that. I think I found a workable solution on stack overflow after that
You can change the url from www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com to bypass that 😉
The day old reddit I gone is the day it is officially dead. Reddit is appealing to the insta audience now and it sucks. I’ve talked to so many people who only recently discovered reddit and they have no idea that discussion used to drive the site. It’s a picture browsing site for them. The site is going down the tubes quickly so it can do an IPO I guess.
I also go to the browser drop down settings and change to desktop mode. It’s annoying but once you zoom in a little it’s identical to mobile view lol.
not just reddit. any site like that is a no go.
The worst is when companies and resutrants use “Instagram” or “Facebook” as their official webpage.
There’s a restaurant where I live that I’ve never gone to because I can’t book it without giving fuckerburg my data
even worse is any deals are on downloaded apps. F that. The only good effect for me with that is its an effective way to identify and avoid corporate type institutions as they are top in using it.
especially the sites that have academic questions and solutions for that but they are locked behind an account and then a subscription.
I assume those are just straight up virus factories.
old reddit still works. For now.
this is one of those things like VLC media player, or even just hard drives: it’s hard to believe it still exists
it will 100% be removed within the next 5 years.
How is it hard to believe VLC or hard drives still exist? HDDs remain the most cost effective way to store large amounts of data and VLC is a widly popular open source media player that is often the default media player on linux systems
I just bought 4 hard drives. They are the most cutest effective way of storing data for most people. I’m pretty sure tape is more expensive, if it’s not there are other issues like sequentially written data. Anyway, this is a dumb example and I don’t expect old reddit to last.
Did I miss something? Or just a joke about the future of reddit because obviously they will go for it at some point.
When I go to a subreddit a popup appears over similar to those news sites asking me to either login or open in app. So it’s kinda the present
That’s for NSFW communities. Since the protests, quite a lot of communities are still marked as NSFW, even if they’re not, in reality.
If you’re on mobile it will happen when you just search a question on google, no matter the subreddit
Firstly, why are you using Google? Secondly, you must be doing something else wrong because I have never seen that outside of NSFW stuff. The only time I go to reddit is on mobile via the browser when I’m searching for something, and I’m not logged into an account.
Firstly, why are you using Google?
Are you under the impression you’re talking to your 8 yr old?
That’s great that it doesn’t happen for you. For me, any time I end up on Reddit in a browser on iPhone, it gives the obnoxious “open in app or continue in browser” popup.
I use private mode in safari though, maybe it’s not saving a cookie or something.
That does not mean you need to log in. If you press continue it’ll go to the website.
I know that. I’m talking about the shitty popup.
What are you guys on about? I can view anything from reddit just fine with no account. On the 18+ prompt there should just be a regular age check disguised as a login prompt. You can still click through it to view it.
Edit: Which, after checking it because I thought I was dumb. I can view any 18+ content on reddit just fine and the prompt can even be blocked with ublock.
Edit 2: Here’s screenshots.
Notice I’m not logged in and I can interact with the content to display it.
(Yes, the ecig communities are 18+ because reddit’s infinite wisdom forced them to be a NSFW community after the vitamin e acetate snafu.)
I understand that the problem is being on mobile (and not on old.reddit). Everything might work fine on desktop.
Works fine on Firefox mobile as well with ublock installed. So I would suggest installing firefox if you can.
(I’d try other browsers to see if there’s a workaround or something, but I don’t have any others installed at the moment.)
So what your saying is that one of the very tools that people used to protest, is now being used to perpetuate the very thing they were protesting?
Why am I not surprised.
Reddit has always required login to view NSFW.
100% nope.
When using current reddit UI, you need to log in to “verify you are over 18”.
When using old.reddit.com you can proceed with a simple click on “Confirm over 18”.
Lol is this actually what’s going on over there now?
Is spez reading from the Musk playbook?
Will it be called xeddit.com next?
They aren’t fully auth-gating the comments yet. You can view the first 5-8 top-level comments and 2-3 comments deep on each parent. Overall, I find myself spending probably 1/5 of the time on a thread that I used to.
EDIT - This is on the mobile browser view.
Overall, I find myself spending probably 1/5 of the time on a thread that I used to.
Same here. And when I do go there I don’t engage with it at all anymore. No posting comments, no posting threads, no up or down voting anything. On mobile I don’t use the site at all anymore since Boost for Lemmy got released. Fuck em.
Occasionally I’ll go to a subreddit on mobile browser and half the time I can’t view it due to mature content. If I really care then I’ll go to old.reddit but often I’ll just back out.
I thought twitter reverted that decision.
Time for a 10 minute mail and 123456 as a password. Take that bullshit website!
www->old
Discord is already there. (Please don’t tell me, it’s an app. You can use it via web perfectly fine.)
You can use it via web perfectly fine
Except when they demand your phone number for access. Pathetic service.
Imagine creating an account just so you can find out how to fix an issue you’re having and then instantly deleting your account after seeing all the nazi shit on the front page.
Nah, it’s a full on J turn and then floor it!
Is that the British version of a U turn?
You mean Twitter right? Reddit is still plenty open.
Old reddit is still open, new reddit and the mobile site have been locked down for a while now.
Give them a couple weeks
Byeeeee
Yep… every time.
Even worse if you take your time, register with 10min mail and the content is not what you are looking for
