Pro-tip: use a libreddit mirror when linking to a Reddit thread
Pro-tip: use a libreddit mirror when linking to a Reddit thread
Use a libreddit mirror like https://reddit.adminforge.de to link to Reddit threads so that Reddit gets 0 traffic and 0 ad revenue from us opening the thread.
For example, if the Reddit link is:
https://old.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/14clza9/i_present_to_you_john_blobiver/
Then you simply have to replace old.reddit.com by reddit.adminforge.de so that the link becomes:
https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/aww/comments/14clza9/i_present_to_you_john_blobiver/
There is a plugin for Firefox and Chromium that has redirects for several big sites.
This is amazing, privacy tools are only getting easier to setup
One thing I will mention regarding this: Make sure when turning on the reddit redirect to also ping instances. The default one that the extension gave me was apparently unable to reach the site, but it worked after finding ones closer to me.
Is there a way to make this work on Android? I've downloaded the xpi and when I try to open it, it says I have no compatible apps. [Might make more sense when I've gotten some sleep, lol.]
There absolutely is!
Install Kiwi Browser - it can run Chrome browser extensions.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser
No. Need to do it the hard way with individual sites.
I used the UntrackMe app which used to work like a charm but doesn't really anymore. Maybe it works on your phone!
Will that website be killed by the api changes?
This newer issue looks like they're investigating ways to use the private API. I doubt it'll last long, but they're trying to keep up by finding loopholes and workarounds.
This is good to know and could be something I'd use a lot, but it isn't working. Every Reddit address I try it on, the reply is "Nothing here. Head back home?"
Does the page need to be pre-prepared, like a web.archive.org address?
do you have an example where it doesn't work?
A lot of what I used to do at Reddit was through mutilReddits, and LibReddit doesn't seem to know how they work: https://old.reddit.com/user/plumpppenguin/m/watchlist/
I'm also unable to get it to open anything mirroring old.reddit; where it works, it's the redesigned pages.
You could try another instance. Here's a list for you https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit-instances/blob/master/instances.md
Or you could get this add-on and have it do it for you https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
Oh, man — the LibRedirect add-on is making me mentally jizz. Thank you!
But then isn't adminforge requesting that content in some way from Reddit which is at least a boost to their stats?
I don't know anything about this particular site, but typically these kinda sites operate on a cached version that is requested just once. So reddit would get a single view no matter how many views your link gets.
For sites like Google's cache or archive.org, they often were gonna cache the site no matter what.
these kinda sites operate on a cached version that is requested just once.
the link in this post (which is 2h old) has comments, newest i found just 35 minutes old, so it at least do some refreshes.
If by stats you mean how many times something is read, that's not really relevant since the content is being served by the mirror without Reddit's ads or trackers.
Technically, Reddit gets one traffic.
I was just thinking about this, thank you!
Pro tip
Thank you for this!