The greatest thing about Reddit is finding information on any old topic. For today, I wanted to dig deeper into My Dinner With Andre. RIF tried to open (he’s such a trooper 😢) and when that failed I went to the browser.
I really want nothing to do with supporting that site, but I do want to read these old discussions. Any advice?
uBlock Origin and uBlock extension combined give really good ad blocking alone. Combine it with a DNS solution in your router like AdGuard and you won’t have to deal with ads at all.
Simultaneously gives the middle finger to reddit because they live on ads.
You’re still a MAU statistic that they will sell upon their IPO
+1 for ublock origin 🙏
Just stop going to the site. It’s that simple.
Honestly though proper ad blocking while continuing to use it will actually cost them money.
True, but they’re going to take whatever numbers they can use to plug the IPO. So even just visiting the site lets them claim traffic hasn’t fallen much.
When you get to a Reddit thread via Google or other search engines you can request a cached version of it.
Use Browser extensions to block all ads and trackers, don’t log in to your account. As an anonymous IP visiting the site you’re almost useless for them because you give them almost no data to sell to advertisers.
Works best with Firefox and uBlockOrigin and some tracker blockers like Privacy Badger. Also works on mobile since Firefox on mobile also supports extensions, however, the Reddit mobile experience is trash, whether you are in a browser or use their shitty app.
Then can still get some information off your IP address like geolocation for example
You could use a VPN for that
Also change your browser user agent with user agent switcher to something useless to them
RiF is still working for me, but I can’t log in. Just a couple of taps to check out my old subs. The pain of it reminds me to keep a distance.
http://mlmym.org/ mimics old Reddit and just pulls through any Lemmy instance you’re using, so you don’t have to change anything you’re already doing and it feels like home. if you like it, please spread it, I only found it because somebody mentioned it.
I think this is the opposite of what OP wants.
I’m really new to all this. It’s asking for a domain and when I put Reddit, it pops an error. How does it work…?
I pretty sure it just makes lemmy look like reddit, which isn’t what OP is asking for.
It’s asking for a lemmy domain to pull into an old reddit like ui.
That link is only for Lemmy instances (e.g., Lemmy.world, Beehaw.org). I entered “Beehaw.org” into the field and it worked fine.
I think the previous poster thought the OP wanted a Lemmy instance but to have it look just like Old Reddit (which this does). If you want Reddit content without going to Reddit, maybe Libreddit works (I think that’s the name of the site). Tedd.it i believe will.shut down on August 1, but you can try them.for now.
make an account on lemmy.world then tell it that’s what you’re using.
Bummer - doesn’t work for kbin… might be something as simple as the change from /c/ in community urls on lemmy to the /m/ magazine urls on kbin. Any chance they have a github or a contributor page to report a bug? Not seeing any on the initial interface.
sorry, I’m not associated with them, was just linked this morning and stoked. More people that know the better. I hope they can patch your instance in!!
No worries - thanks!
I use an app from F-Droid called Stealth
You can use the Web Archive, if those posts are saved, you’ll see it without ever touching a reddit server. You can’t comment or give awards or anything, but you’re not locked out completely.
Or you can use a 3rd party app. The team behind Youtube Revanced have patched most of the major (Android) ones to still function afterwards. https://web.archive.org/web/20230705025421/https://www.reddit.com/r/AfterVanced/comments/14m3wgo/reddit_apps_for_which_patches_andor_patched/
libreddit.hu is a good alternative Reddit frontend.
A lot of people edited and deleted old posts before vacating Reddit. Even if what you want were possible, the posts might no longer be there.
https://browse.feddit.de/ This will show you every community there is on Lemmy. It won’t help with the old discussions, but may help you find some new communities you didn’t know about. I find it best to either just scroll through the list as is, or if using the search bar, to type maybe half the word I’m looking for and give it a few seconds to search.
Louis Malle is a boss, just thought I’d start with that.
But what did you even want that you could t get on IMDb or Wikipedia? There are plenty of places besides Reddit to chat about film
Are there? IMDb killed its boards like 10 years ago. I am unaware of other large scale movie discussion boards, Reddit has really taken that spot for me.
Whenever I finished a tv series it was nice closure to go through its subreddit and see all the takes, things I missed, etc. Old style media or just marter-of-factly summarizing the plot just doesn’t go as far.
If you visit the site with an adblocker, I don’t see what revenue they would get.
I am using rtv, run with my own API key. https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv