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Pre-IPO Reddit lets ads be dressed up as promoted user posts (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 months ago by jeze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Well, look at that. Ads disguised as posts.

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[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 24 points 5 months ago

Old.reddit still works

[-] T156@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

As does putting .i on the end, to use the compact interface.

The links are a bit spotty nowadays, and some of the newer features don't work quite right, but it otherwise works a treat for most things.

[-] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

and some of the newer features don't work quite right

That's the true feature

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

Just curious, because typing Reddit in at the end of searches magically makes the exact niche result you need appear, how do you open a post in old Reddit?

[-] PeroBasta@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

There are FF addons that can do that for you. Otherwise you have to manually change the www into old.

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Oh really that easy

Someone else mentioned front ends to limit tracking and stuff so imma check that out too

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 months ago

I'd be more likely to recommend you install a plugin like libredirect and use an alternative frontend to Reddit like libreddit. Get visibility into posts, spread your load across three alternative front end instances to avoid rate limiting, starve reddit of the tracking data they're trying to direct people to their preferred front end for

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Other than libreddit got any recommendations for the other two?

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

I just pick the fastest three working libreddit instances once pinged by libredirect

[-] ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

uBO can bypass it too, if you don't want to have to deal with old.reddit on mobile.

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