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Trekman10 ,
@Trekman10@sh.itjust.works avatar

Twitter too now

MonkderZweite ,

There’s a userscript, ‘old reddit redirect’.

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I can still browse without an account.

troyunrau ,
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca avatar

Depends on the sub. r/Ukraine is set to NSFW, so they require an account to “verify” for some reason.

quesomodo ,
@quesomodo@programming.dev avatar

Can’t you just use old.plebbit?

Turun ,

Yes you can

MrScottyTay ,

It’s because certain jurisdictions require companies to not allow access to potential 18+ content without getting consent and the user saying they are over 18. If there isn’t an age selection then in their T&Cs it’ll likely have something saying that creating an account confirms you are over 18.

Tankton ,

You could just use a popup that says “Are you over 18 and willing to see NFSW content?” like most NSFW website do, but I guess that doenst generate enough money unlike forcing accounts does.

MrScottyTay ,

That’s not always the case because signing up and accepting a T&C makes it more binding of the user to say they are who they say they are. If they aren’t, then it’s close to fraud. Having just a “are you over” screen is not enough, since the user can easily lie and the company can get done for not having enough measures in place to stop that from happening.

I know in the end it’s all futile anyway because of many reasons. But for companies it’s checking off a box that gets a governing body off their back and making sure they have the right certifications to do what they need/want to do.

Tankton ,

Since when does a reddit account require me to submit ID proving I am indeed 18+? I literally see no difference in reliability between requiring an account where one claims to be 18+ and a banner where one has to claim to be 18+. In both scenario’s you are relying 100% on user input.

MrScottyTay ,

I didn’t say they required you to supply id.

Also the difference is in legislation, business certifications and responsibility.

Like I also said, in the end these measures don’t matter to end result of the user (other than now needing to make an account, but still able to lie through it) but they do matter when a company wants to work with another that require all of its partners to have specific certifications and whatnot.

Whisper06 ,

Reader mode on the browser works sometimes.

BallShapedMan ,
@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world avatar

Often times (not always) you can had archive.is/ between the https:// and the www to get access to it.

Also works when there is a paywall.

thatsTheCatch ,

I use this trick all the time

Pixelologist ,
@Pixelologist@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I use an extension called spaywall that helps make this easy

Supanova ,

I don’t want to create an account for a cesspool, twitter

Grimble ,

When your one account got nuked years ago and its permanently suspended and rate limited 😍😍😍😍

jaybone ,

Lol is this actually what’s going on over there now?

Is spez reading from the Musk playbook?

Will it be called xeddit.com next?

spiderman ,

I thought twitter reverted that decision.

i_ben_fine ,

Twitter seems to randomly choose which users can be viewed without an account.

porksoda ,

They aren’t fully auth-gating the comments yet. You can view the first 5-8 top-level comments and 2-3 comments deep on each parent. Overall, I find myself spending probably 1/5 of the time on a thread that I used to.

EDIT - This is on the mobile browser view.

Hyperz ,
@Hyperz@lemmy.world avatar

Overall, I find myself spending probably 1/5 of the time on a thread that I used to.

Same here. And when I do go there I don’t engage with it at all anymore. No posting comments, no posting threads, no up or down voting anything. On mobile I don’t use the site at all anymore since Boost for Lemmy got released. Fuck em.

lhamil64 ,

Occasionally I’ll go to a subreddit on mobile browser and half the time I can’t view it due to mature content. If I really care then I’ll go to old.reddit but often I’ll just back out.

perviouslyiner ,

there’s a firefox extension which converts all links to old.

HubertManne ,

not just reddit. any site like that is a no go.

soggy_kitty ,

The worst is when companies and resutrants use “Instagram” or “Facebook” as their official webpage.

There’s a restaurant where I live that I’ve never gone to because I can’t book it without giving fuckerburg my data

HubertManne ,

even worse is any deals are on downloaded apps. F that. The only good effect for me with that is its an effective way to identify and avoid corporate type institutions as they are top in using it.

hiramfromthechi ,
@hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world avatar

You should vocalize it to the owner (or at least management) if you can. You’d be surprised what comes of it.

I did this once with a restaurant/bar owner, and she was very understanding. Once I took the time to explain how I didn’t wanna be subjected to everything that a setup like that brings, she empathized and actually got a standalone website.

Many people aren’t aware until you make em aware. And whether they feel the same or not from a consumer standpoint, at least they’ll know that there’s people out there who do care, and it affects business. And usually, if it affects business, it doesn’t matter what their personal feelings towards it are. A good business owner will be sure to adjust because they learned something new about the market.

Someology ,
@Someology@lemmy.world avatar

Call them on the telephone, and tell a human you would like to make a reservation. Telephone voice calls still work at every restaurant in my region. Also, get this, you can place take out orders that way at most places! It’s an amazing technology!

LostWon ,

I’ve found it can also be cheaper to place the order by phone than by an online ordering (middleman) service.

spiderman ,

especially the sites that have academic questions and solutions for that but they are locked behind an account and then a subscription.

HubertManne ,

I assume those are just straight up virus factories.

Omega_Haxors ,

Imagine creating an account just so you can find out how to fix an issue you’re having and then instantly deleting your account after seeing all the nazi shit on the front page.

cyberpunk007 ,

Where’s the Nazi shit? I just went there and didn’t see any of that

Omega_Haxors ,

I guess you could say that you do… not see it!

Yeah I know that one was bad. I apologize.

TORFdot0 ,

I recently got “this content is unverified, please open in our app to continue” from a Google search that lead to a random Reddit thread. Nope not gonna do that. I think I found a workable solution on stack overflow after that

BuboScandiacus ,
@BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz avatar

You can change the url from www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com to bypass that 😉

pahlimur , (edited )

The day old reddit I gone is the day it is officially dead. Reddit is appealing to the insta audience now and it sucks. I’ve talked to so many people who only recently discovered reddit and they have no idea that discussion used to drive the site. It’s a picture browsing site for them. The site is going down the tubes quickly so it can do an IPO I guess.

porksoda ,

Not only did discussion used to drive that site, but thriving niche communities. I hired a young-ish (~25) webdev recently and he asked where I heard about a certain topic. I told him reddit and he was genuinely confused. I sent him links to r/webdev, r/selfhosted, r/sysadmin, r/datahoarder, and a handful of other recommendations. His mind was blown that reddit not only had those communities, but how deep the content was.

My point is, reddit has really leaned into the lowest common denominator audience to chase growth and has completely abandoned its nerd roots (most evidently by its API policy changes).

Flaimbot , (edited )

personal petpeeve of mine, that insta-gen as you describe it, is mentally incapable of making/uploading computer screenshots in computer specific subs (e.g. game specific subs). they upload photos of their monitor that look like ass, angled like they’re tim walker and shaken like they’re driving on cobblestone… almost like we’re back in the 00s or something.
it literally requires more effort to post a worse picture and be removeded at than simply pressing print-screen and ctrl-v on the pc.
“bUt I’m NoT uSiNg ReDdIt On My CoMpUtEr So I’m NoT lOgGeD iN”
yeah, while at that better uninstall it on your phone aswell. nothing of worth comes out of you anyways. smh

pahlimur ,

I wish this were only a problem with kids. I’m a system integrator and I’m constantly asking for screenshots of HMIs for troubleshooting. It’s about 50/50 with my current client if it’s going to be a jank cell phone picture or an actual screenshot. I think it’s an uneducated portion of the population that is too dumb to give a shit. They always existed but now the barrier to posting a photo is finally low enough that they can barely step over it and us early PC users are annoyed by them.

weeeeum ,

I also go to the browser drop down settings and change to desktop mode. It’s annoying but once you zoom in a little it’s identical to mobile view lol.

junfel ,

Byeeeee

HomebrewHedonist ,
@HomebrewHedonist@lemmy.ca avatar

Yep… every time.

TWeaK ,

old reddit still works. For now.

sooper_dooper_roofer ,

this is one of those things like VLC media player, or even just hard drives: it’s hard to believe it still exists

it will 100% be removed within the next 5 years.

valek879 ,

I just bought 4 hard drives. They are the most cutest effective way of storing data for most people. I’m pretty sure tape is more expensive, if it’s not there are other issues like sequentially written data. Anyway, this is a dumb example and I don’t expect old reddit to last.

frezik ,

I have a little theory that the hard drive market will collapse fast once SSDs become 2x the price per GB. My reasoning is that a lot of these setups for large data storage are using four drives on RAID10. With SSDs, those can become just two drives on RAID1 for the sake of redundancy; the speed advantage of adding RAID0 to the mix will be inconsequential. So they can cost twice as much when you’re buying half as many.

We’re not that far away from this point.

valek879 ,

Actually I would assume that most people with 3 or more drives are running some form of RAID 5.

With 4 drives and this structure I receive the capacity of 3 drives. The final drive is called the “parity” drive which keeps some kind of copy of the information on it. If one drive fails then I can replace it with a new drive and rebuild the data from parity. This is a long process that requires the data off the parity drive and the other two drives. But you can do this with any disk, from any other three disks.

It’s really cool. Sure there are speed benefits but the real kicker is the size of the pool. With current tech I can fairly reasonably get four 18TB drives SSD’s have a long way to go before they affordably reach that kind of capacity.

TacoNissan ,

Awwww cute lil hard drives 🥺🥰

jivandabeast ,

How is it hard to believe VLC or hard drives still exist? HDDs remain the most cost effective way to store large amounts of data and VLC is a widly popular open source media player that is often the default media player on linux systems

seitanic ,
@seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

HDDs are only still around because SSDs are so expensive.

jivandabeast ,

Exactly, ssds are expensive. Hence why it is not hard to believe that hard drives are still popular

freebread ,

5 years? Honestly, I give old reddit maybe 1 year left.

eldain ,

Time for a 10 minute mail and 123456 as a password. Take that bullshit website!

Rezzit ,

Discord is already there. (Please don’t tell me, it’s an app. You can use it via web perfectly fine.)

WhyJiffie ,

You can use it via web perfectly fine

Except when they demand your phone number for access. Pathetic service.

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