A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isnāt great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Donāt promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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You can always use a libreddit instance. Change reddit.com in the URL to libredd.it. I have a local instance and use the Privacy Redirect extension to make Google search results use my local instance instead of the actual site.
How do you get privacy redirect on mobile?
https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
I use untrackme to redirect various stuff, but itās external and not directly integrated with the browser
People are saying they all have seen this butā¦ Iām on reddit mobile all the time and this is new to me. At least this way of doing it.
What I normally see is āreddit is better in the appā and two buttons, asking you to try the app or if you want to stay in the browser. It was presented kind of as a choice. Now it looks like a demand!
Yeah I always just see that as well. But I am logged in, this isnāt shown to people who are logged in.
I used to see that, but now Iām seeing what OP shared.
Everytime I need to use reddit (usually because a search on a specific matter gave me a reddit post as best result) I just use libredd.it instead of reddit.com.
E.g. if you have www.reddit.com/yourpost use instead libredd.it/yourpost.
Switch to ādesktop modeā This is the shit that started me looking for alternative, its just sooooo pushy
Try i.reddit.com instead, itās redditās secret older mobile website.
I also like old.reddit.com, even for your mobile browser.
Iāll try it, thx!
may be try teddit.net or libredd.it
Yeah, this is incredibly infuriating. Itās small things like this that are pushing me to just get rid of my old reddit account.
I keep it around just to have it incase I want to talk a bit, but any time youāre not using the reddit mobile app they make it such an infuriating experience for absolutely no reason.
Iāve noticed this too. I guess Iāll live without themā¦
Been that way for a while now.
yes. however, you can still log in and then it wonāt do this.
Iāll pass. My reddit account got permabanned for saying that the cop who killed Daniel Shaver deserves to die. If thatās worth a permaban but the numerous subreddits filled with bigotry can stay up on reddit, then Iām fine not having an account or using the site anymore.
yes but what if you donāt want to do that.
Honestly, this is so infuriatingā¦ Reddit is ruined at this point. I wonder why they force people to use the app so much. I know why. ADVERTS! :( I hope this site grows more (lemmygrad.ml)
yeah lemmygrad.ml rocks
I would say lemmy as a whole.
I had a similar experience earlier today: i was on the web version of the Wage app (freelancing platform) and saw a banner saying theyāre gonna scrap the website and force everyone to use the mobile app only
All the proprietary stuff is just getting more user-hostile by the day. like, how long before average people canāt tolerate it anymore and start switching to free stuff? i really wanna see that.
They have way more tracking and advertising options on an app and itās harder to adblock thereā¦
Also apps can stay active in the background etc, users just have way less control. Especially casual users will just let the apps have camera and microphone rights and whatever.
You gotta vote by leaving those platforms; It doesnt matter if you get the app, they are going down the āmine engagement data while we drive engagementā path and it leads nowhere good.
Yeah, I actually deleted my account today (I hadnāt used it in almost a year and I only opened it again cause I got a notif)
Thatās annoying for sure, but you can still get around that with old.reddit.com and i.reddit.com.
The old version is still much betterā¦ thereās a browser extension that does the redirect automatically
Oooh nice didnāt know about this.
Take a look at Privacy Redirect. It supports a bunch of services, like youtube and twitter.
Iāve installed an opensource reddit app to bypass to annoying limitations and tracking when needed. Also it load 100x faster.
Redreader, 10mo of storage. Worth it.
RedReader is nice. I personally use Slide, itās great too.
āView as desktopā solves this problem
Thereās a great reddit app alternative called Stealth, you wonāt need to log in and you can see the content you want to see, you may download it from F-Droid
im here cause I hate reddit, and all i see are posts about reddit -> why?