I use RSS to fetch reddit posts for subs that are not active in Lemmy.
Sometimes I need to read the comments so I’d view the post from safari. Today, I tried like 3 post and when click on view post, it would redirect me to the App Store.
When I decided to screenshot the page to make this post, it did show the post but would refuse like 1 out of 5 times.
Orion lets you send a custom user agent in requests. I’ve found this to generally avoid the “go use our app” dogshit on iOS. It’s also, so far, been nearly perfect at ad blocking in combo with filtering via NextDNS. Kagi has something going, I sure hope they have a revenue plan.
What user agent are you using?
I don’t use Reddit anymore but if absolutely everything goes bad you can pretend to be the Google bot, that works even for Twitter but idk if it will influence your experience to some degree.
So I just tried this user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Reddit says it won’t accept the user agent and blocks the page. Is that not the right one or did I enter it wrong into Orion?
Honestly, I have no idea but maybe this site can help. https://explore.whatismybrowser.com/useragents/explore/software_name/googlebot/
I tried several of those and still getting a Reddit block page saying those user agents are against their terms of service.
Oh well was mostly just curious to test something new out on Orion. I wouldn’t go to reddit ever if I can avoid it.
In theory none of those sites can afford to block that user agent, maybe there is something else detected (I have no clue) but if they blocked those Google couldn’t list them in their search anymore and that would basically be a death sentence for Reddit!
“Deez nuts”
u/spez’s management “style” for sure.
spez being spez
*speX
What an insult to be a knock off a shitty person lol
I’d love to post this to r/rareinsults.
!rareinsults@lemmy.world is a place here
dew it
We have c/rareinsults.
I love this.
So wannabe Elon Musk is copying Elon Musk and twitter?
Just keep making the platform even more unaccessible and user-unfriendly. I’m sure the users don’t mind or change platforms.
So if you build an app on RSS to circumvent the API BS, your users would get redirected to the app store where they conveniently can download spez’s dumpster fire of code they call an app? That’s so hilariously evil and stupid at the same time. Spez could be some Saturday morning cartoon villain.
Who could’ve known that Reddit all along was a faceless corporation that makes horrible decisions!
On Android, if you go on any reddit post in your browser, you can’t scroll down in the comments, at least in my experience. This is probably to incentivize download and using the app, which introduces more problems. If I really need to check a reddit post out, I view it in the browser in desktop view.
Reminds me of one of the biggest fuckups another company that just rebranded had recently!
Digg?
I’m shocked.
Sink it safari extension helps with this.
Wow. I didn’t know such solution existed.
Thanks.
Well, it’s safari after all
Non reddit users who will open the reddit links for information will now stop looking at it. They won’t go through the pain of signing up. Ad revenue loses for the idiots.
It also means people trying to share posts with friends will have trouble. If someone sends me a link that insists I open in app I’ll either ask the sender to just screenshot it or pretend I looked.
I browse Reddit with AdGuard and Sink It since I no longer have an account there. I don’t usually have a problem viewing the rare post or two that isn’t on Lemmy
They’ve been testing disabling the mobile site for a few months now. They were A/B testing on accounts and not letting them log in from mobile browsers for a awhile now. I don’t expect it’ll be long before they try to block all mobile devices from accessing their website except through their stupid app.
Seems like it
