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After three years since the original crackdown on third party clients, RIF appears to be inoperable with user account API keys (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 12 hours ago by jsonjson to c/reddit@lemmy.world
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I've been using Reddit is fun on my phone using my account's API key and it appears the ship has now finally sailed.

I would be curious to know if others are still able to access RIF/other third party clients, or not, so we can get some basic idea if this is a single account or them finally closing the last loophole.

It's also completely valid to not care at all about Reddit because clearly this is an abusive company and for me personally, I can only see this being beneficial for my mental health.

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

News to me. I assumed RIF quit working exactly (insert Lemmy account age) ago.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I thought they stopped all this like 2 or 3 years ago. Surprised any 3rd party apps were still working or being used.

[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

They do, you just have to buy clicks to use it. There's packages, it's nuts.

[–] Az_1@piefed.zip 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

There's actually a new loophole where an app called morphe with an extension called patcheddit uses Redreader's (or infinity's, but the dev has to pay for that one so don't use it) api key to get third party clients working. If you want to keep using RIF, see this https://github.com/wchill/patcheddit, I tried it with Sync as a fun test and it worked well. As a bonus, you're less likely to have your account banned as I had mine banned last year for what I presume was using my personal api key to patch Sync, and you also don't need to use the Redreader app directly like many comments are suggesting. I presume what happened and why it stopped working for you is because Reddit revoked api keys for everyone except those who had api keys for bots and things like that. Hope this helps :)

[–] Zulu@lemmy.world 63 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Reddit is no longer fun indeed

[–] Krusty@quokk.au 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You don't like sucking the corporate cock?

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

You can't even see the cock anymore since they banned porn from /all

[–] Krusty@quokk.au 1 points 37 minutes ago

If you have a legacy account you will still see porn.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

You know it's bad when you come for the cock and you STILL get fucked.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it stopped being fun not long before the 3P app fiasco.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

Or maybe it was long before.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

fatbird might still work.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 30 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Didn't know that was possible. I might have wanted to use that feature 3 years ago, but on the other hand, I didn't look for that feature 3 years ago. I was fed up with Reddit and still am. It was fun whil it lasted, but those days are gone now. I've gone back a few times, but its all bots and ads now. Some local and small communuties might still contain humans, but those are getting poisoned by right wingers.

[–] dkppunk@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

I left after Apollo went down, I loved that app. I’ve only gone back to browse if Reddit comes up in a search engine for something I’m looking for. Even then, l try to find other sources of info. I absolutely do not log in though, if I have to login to see whatever info, then it’s not really important.

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

The live pages during sports events are fun, but the rest seems to be pretty dire

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 8 points 10 hours ago

I paid for Infinity to use the API. But I got permabanned for quoting song lyrics and stupid mods not understanding context so I made the move to Lemmy and it's generally better anyway. So cancelled my subscription to Infinity last week.

[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 hours ago

I've been using redreader since the crackdown. It's one of two approved 3rd party clients since reddit themselves are too lazy to make their own app accessible, which is the reason why they keep redreader working for free.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 7 points 10 hours ago

Probably because of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1tq9vxo/protecting_communities_from_scrapers_and_platform/

It semi-broke RDX and the dev is trying to find a workaround. You can still use it but the subreddit autocomplete search stopped working and you have to manually type in a sub’s name to go to it.

[–] ArfArfWoof@europe.pub 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

been using Stealth to browse stealthily, and since a few days ago, it also no workie. changed source to Rddt (web scraping) and it got good again

[–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Stealth is pretty great for lurkers. Could use a little more polish for image subs (porn browsing), but its good enough.

[–] ArfArfWoof@europe.pub 2 points 1 hour ago

Agreed, if lurking is all you need r*ddit for (like me ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) )

[–] Krusty@quokk.au 2 points 11 hours ago

RedReader still works.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

A community ruined by cunts who think they own it.