Reddit be like

Same if they say to disable your ad blocker.

I love when they give you instructions on how to disable it. Lol, fuck you, website.
- or if they try to guilt-trip you into disabling the ad blocker with a frowny face or something.
- And the instructions are always wrong... I'm not using AdBlock Plus, and they forget to include how to disable the PiHole 😂
Trust is broken. Ads have been abused where I have to block by default unless I already trust your website.

I'm not risking malware for some strangers advertisements.
- Yeah, I agree. I never really minded ads as I just mentally ignore them so I didn’t use an ad blocker for a very long time after it was common practice. I also disagreed with the principle of ad blockers as sites need to pay their expenses.
  
  But then they abused the data that they collected to change people’s political opinions in a way that went way beyond just your standard political ads and that was it for me.
That's when bab-defuser.js and the element zapper get to shine.

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

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

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

especially the sites that have academic questions and solutions for that but they are locked behind an account and then a subscription.
- I assume those are just straight up virus factories.

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?

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.
- 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.
- 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.
I thought twitter reverted that decision.
- Twitter seems to randomly choose which users can be viewed without an account.

Did I miss something? Or just a joke about the future of reddit because obviously they will go for it at some point.

When I go to a subreddit a popup appears over similar to those news sites asking me to either login or open in app. So it's kinda the present
- That's for NSFW communities. Since the protests, quite a lot of communities are still marked as NSFW, even if they're not, in reality.
- I also get a button along with those to continue in my browser (on mobile). I just tap to continue on Firefox, and it works (at least on any subs that are not NSFW).

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.

Where's the Nazi shit? I just went there and didn't see any of that
- I guess you could say that you do... not see it!
  
  Yeah I know that one was bad. I apologize.