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[–] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago (7 children)

And every time a Reddit results show up, I'm immediately reminded why I don't want to go there by an error telling me that I can't use the site without logging in.

Fortunately, just changing the link to old.reddit.com still works even through VPN, but fuck this behavior. I do that only for questions I really need an answer and couldn't find anywhere else, and most of the time the replies are shit anyway.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

Hate any results from Twitter as well.

Log in, log in, tell us who you are!

Fuck you. I never made an account when it wasn't run by a thin-skinned narcissistic man-child, and I'm not about to start now.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I honestly can’t believe they haven’t killed old.reddit yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I imagine there is a reason, and only they can see the numbers...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

God, I hate infantile, "quirky" messages. Same shit with discord, but at least discord is useful.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

When did discord become useful?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

When my idiot friends couldn't figure out anything better. At least we're not using Skype anymore.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

When they implemented in-channel streaming

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's probably more to do with using a VPN than not being logged in. If I'm searching for something on a search engine and Reddit comes up in the results with potentially useful information, then I'll go there (the only time I go there now). I don't use a VPN and I'm never logged in, and I've never seen that page come up.

Which makes sense, because those greedy bastards are trying to hyper-monetize the content. And pesky VPNs make it difficult for them to harvest useful visitors info and/or throw tons of partially targeted ads on the poor user's screen.

Still good info on how to avoid it for the people who do encounter that annoying error page. So thanks for comparing that tidbit of knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fwiw I use ProtonVPN and I've never seen that message before; I browse mostly on mobile, but do on the full-site too (lemmy's nsfw communities are a barren wasteland for what I'm looking for). Both logged in and not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I guess it may be a combination. I use Mullvad VPN + Mullvad browser. Maybe they only show it if the can't fingerprint you enough? I.e by a combination of IP, and your browser + extensions + tracking cookies fingerprint?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yup, it's a VPN. If I turn it off, it works properly even in the same browser (Mullvad). But I refuse to cave in, so if they every start checking for VPNs even in the old Reddit, or disable it altogehter (which I'm sure will be soon, since you can also use it to bypass "Log in to see NSFW content"), I'm out for good, and will finally block Reddit at my Kagi.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

If you use Firefox, get the Redirector extension and add a rule that automatically redirects reddit.com/* to old.reddit.com/$1.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the tip I didn't know that 🙂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I just use a browser addon to always use old reddit.