- cross-posted to:
- mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
I know its easier than ever to dunk on how terrible reddit has gotten, but honestly? What is this? How is is safer to deliver this content to kids viewing reddit on a tablet or PC or in the app? Why even create the bs excuse?
They could just have easily told the truth an displayed a message like “Content is limited. Open in the app to view.” It’s still a jerk move, but at a minimum its honest.
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You can get iPad 10th Gen which is pretty good option for kids, I recently got one through free tablet wireless website and it’s working really great…
It’s not reviewed and may have harmful content, so please read the harmful content on an app instead?
Does old.reddit.com still work to get around it?
Old reddit has started to prevent people from accessing the site without being logged in if you use a VPN. Reddit is officially dead for me since last month.
Big yike 😬 Anyone find a decent way around THAT yet? How do they even know that you’re on a VPN? Is it like… they maintain a list of known VPN exit node IPs?
I guess the IPs of most VPNs are known to everyone. I thought killing Old Reddit would be the end for me, but it came sooner. Thanks Spez I guess.
I use a scraper called geddit, think it was on fdroid.
Yes
For now…
The best tablet for kids is one with no fucking speakers.
Try switching www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com
For as long as it lasts. It’s clear they’re neglecting it - features like chat don’t work well. Not that the app isn’t a broken glitchy mess either.
Chat? Never used it.
Right? I see it as a bonus that chat doesn’t work.
This is the way
Desktop mode and move on.
Desktop mode andmove on.
That’s why i don’t use reddit anymore
Idk about other browsers but firefox has an option to load in desktop view, that is what I do to bypass that when I need an answer to something quick and every other source sucks
Can you set that on a per site basis?
There are loads of old reddit specific ones yes. Worth adding a few and always having them redirect links
Has anyone tried to scrape Reddit, so that the valuable content from some subs isn’t lost for good?
I suppose we could just ask whatever AI it is that they’re selling the data to.
The mildly infuriating thing is we still go there on occasion
Check out redlib. It’s a fork of Libreddit that doesn’t get ratelimited.
The instance I use: https://lr.vern.cc/
If anything happens to that, not only will it probably be forked, but there’s also kddit and Eddrit, as well as a couple of old Libreddit instances that Reddit forgot about.
Tons of comments and not one answering OP’s question. I would be interesting in knowing the official reasoning too, but nobody here is answering the question.
Maybe nobody actually knows the answer, except probably Reddit devs and the managers that made them push those changes out, neither of which will be at liberty to say.
We can all speculate - they’re doing something for the sake of being seen to be doing something instead of actually blocking the content; they don’t want to block the content selectively because that means KYC and lots of people get upset about that sort of thing, etc etc.
Infinity for Reddit still works
I feel like there is probably a linux solution for a kid’s tablet, like a refurbished android device, that would be better than a lot of the products on the market which have in the past been a part of countless privacy concerns. VTech and Amazon are big recent examples of lawsuits over children’s privacy violations, and both Hasbro and Mattel have violated COPPA in the past, it’s been an industry for over a decade and has no signs of stopping.
