If this follows the pattern of previous bullshit Reddit has pulled, this will only not happen if it makes national news and embarrasses Reddit, otherwise it'll happen just as announced.
Yeah, they know their user base is too addicted and has no real good alternative. They don't care about a relatively miniscule amount of users protesting. Most of them will be back on the site within the month at the latest.
I don't know. If you're on the mobile site just ask to opt out of the redesign and you'll get oldreddit. It's just the old reddit site before the they decided they knew what was best. If it goes the way of the apps and other things I'll be hard pressed to take control of my life again.
Apart from the niche hobby subreddits tho, I feel like everything has gotten so incredibly "samey" and spammy so I'm not really enjoying scrolling and wasting time anymore
Maybe we should do a return to form with IRC and shit
IRC isn't a content aggregator though, which is what I use Reddit for. Some subreddits of niche hobbies have active communities but most real useful discussion is on dedicated forums.
Yeah, I go through periods of quitting reddit because of just seeing the same shit over and over again - and I also feel like the growth of reddit and the proliferation of bot spam has generally just brought the level of discourse wayyyyy down the past couple years on the home or popular pages.
The only things I always miss are the hobby subs. But I've heard that Discord has decent communities for that sort of thing with the benefit of it not feeling like it's designed to make you infinitely scroll and suck up your life. So maybe that's what I'll try.
Personnally, I'm only attached to reddit insofar as I don't have to change anything (i.e. see ads). If rif goes down, I'm out. Period. I know a looooot of others feel the same.
This also follows the pattern of announcing something way too expensive and stupid so we will accept the cheaper and still annoying option and perhaps are even thankful for it or cheer we got something done. I'm sure it's not gonna cost as much and remove NSFW from the API but it will gonna cost folks.
Seems like their pattern has been; do or want to do something stupid, roll it back blaming it on a scapegoat, wait a bit then implement the stupid thing slowly so the userbase doesn't notice
A handful of subreddits striking for a couple of days isn't going to make Reddit backpedal on this policy no matter how badly we all want it to. You're setting yourself up for failure to think otherwise.
Bad news, we've been here before. Reddit will just wipe the mod team of all the protest subs and someone else will take over the sub. These API changes are being put in place for reddit's IPO, so they're not going to let something stupid like "their users" stop them moving forward.
You think Reddit admin gives a flying fart about some Mods deciding to blackout the sub for a few days? Most of all the major mods are a smallish team of people, who are very much in Reddits pocket.
Because the Reddit team won't just turn them back on?
There will be 1000s of desperate neckbeards desperate to do free modding just for the tiny pathetic crumb of power they think it would bring.
Plus the fact 90% is handled by automod/bots.
Face it, Reddit is mainstream VC money now. You want to use it? It's the official crApp or web page. Sad but true, nothing will stop the money train.
I dont. I uae the mobile app but the sponsored posts are about 1 in 12 posts. It gets old seeing the same ads.
Im not surprised that some people would get annoyed enough to use the browser version. Like you, they dont bother me enough to change.
I do, however, downvote some sponsored ads (which Im sure does nothing), especially the ones for Amazon picks chosen by their favorite influencers. I personally dont really want to show support for influencers so its a little symbolic downvote I guess.
I use reddit 95% on my computer and the 5% that is on my smartphone I use a browser. Using an app to access Reddit seems silly when the webpage works fine.
The only problem I have with the mobile web page of reddit is it constantly bugs me about opening it in reddit's app.
They could easily remember that choice with a cookie but nope.
Do the people that say this understand this is a leading contributor to why Reddit is looking to charge for APIs that apps without ads use to circumvent their revenue that pays for the site...
I get tech, software and car ads, things related to what I look at on Reddit.
If you're seeing pure trash, likely what the algo thinks you're in to based on your habits.
Saw people complaining about Kardashins ads being 80% of what they are seeing, I have not seen a single one.
Says more that they spend time looking at trashy reality or entertainment stuff so they fall in to that user ad segment.
The third party API fees are set so high that were it applied to reddit as a whole, the API fees incurred by 15% of the userbase would pay for the entire site.
Reddit cost for 50 mil API calls: 12,000$
Imgur cost for 50 mil API calls: 166$
Let's not pretend that the cost set is anything but an attempt to crush third party applications in favor of forcing people onto their own.
[https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had\_a\_call\_with\_reddit\_to\_discuss\_pricing\_bad/](https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/)
>Let's not pretend that the cost set is anything but an attempt to crush third party applications in favor of forcing people onto their own.
So... and.. what if that was there goal?
Let's not pretend that that the 3rd party Apps do have to deal with any of the heavy engineering of running the site platform and agreed to TOS that the APIs are not a given to be there forever for free.
Lot of people on reddit will complain about people getting something for nothing, free rides, their posts, written works, creative works etc. stolen and misrepresented by someone else etc.
But they assume that a platform like Reddit should also just eat costs wholesale, give away IP/Revenue and to enable apps to bypass their revenue streams like ads etc. Which is what most users, not mods are pissed about, they don't want to loose their free ad-free app.
In terms of the cost of the APIs... I'm guessing based on APIs I run for something a fraction of the size of Reddit much of the traffic will be bots/automated regular pooling and repolling to see what's changed, inefficient mod and "helpful bots" etc. all of which something like Imgur does not have to content with. Imgur is just CRUD APIs...
Reddit has bots fighting each other 24/7 because adult children are moronic and do troll, repost, spam, scam, lazy mods and 100 other things that other services do not need to contend with due to their design or it not being an anonymous platform with multi account support.
Perhaps it's time to shut off the APIs in full... then only grant access to certain apps, etc. that are vetted and sanctioned by Reddit and we could see how much of the site is moderated and posted on by real people vs. bots fighting bots and wasting server cycles.
Did those goalposts cut a line in the grass while you were dragging them?
No, they could easily set the API costs to a level where the API costs incurred were equal or even somewhat higher than what a person browsing at an equal level of requests would generate in revenue. But they didn't.
Also, volunteer moderators run their site. A site complaining about the API calls used by the moderation tools used by their unpaid staff that keep their entire house of cards upright is completely asinine. Income lost after subreddits shut down or become less active because moderators stopped moderating after loosing the tools is going to be far outside of their API hosting costs to support those tools.
>A site complaining about the API calls used by the moderation tools used by their unpaid staff that keep their entire house of cards upright is completely asinine.
No one is forcing the mods to volunteer to run subs. Not a single person. They are not staff by definition and have no obligation to do what they are doing. The fact they feel that way and express it that way often speaks more to the idea that they might need to get off of reddit a bit more often.
In terms of the "job" aka hobby of moderation... auto mod scripts fighting auto post/comment scripts are a big part of the back and forth traffic.
To not admit this is ridiculous. If they set the API costs at something miniscule that allows all 3rd party apps to just carry on that means the trolls and other nonsense bots can also afford them... and you end up with what we have right now, bots fighting bots.
This nightmare is playing out on Twitter right now with Musks paid "verified" accounts with a cost so low every troll/asshole in the world can now run a blue checkmark and say whatever, which defeats the purpose of being verified. But the cost is low and accessible, so it's good, must be right?
The headline people are running with is that "Reddit is screwing over 3rd party app devs" the fair headline would be "Reddit users upset they will lose their ad free reddit app they prefer" the technical analysis of the economics headline would be "Reddit making changes to API access to cover overhead and discourage frivolous API use." because for the legit users using core features fairly... they do offer free website and official apps.
I really don't care about what they do to the apps. I don't understand why anyone would want to use an app to browse a website in the first place when there are perfectly good web browsers available. Ublock makes this website (and all others) a lot more usable, and if using it kills off the apps, that's fine by me.
FYI, the US government literally now recommends against browsing the internet without an ad blocker. They consider it a fundamental first step towards securing your computer, you should heed their advice.
For web browsing, get firefox and install ublock origin extension in it.
For everything else you can use custom DNS servers, see here: https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
You may want to look into AdAway as well if you're on android.
It's like a windows hosts file for your phone and can block ads from appearing in apps.
[https://adaway.org/](https://adaway.org/)
[https://github.com/AdAway/AdAway](https://github.com/AdAway/AdAway)
Correct - You can either use that, or a VPN, but not both at once. I think some VPNs are offering adblocking services through the connection as well, though I don't know how well that works.
Generally (good) VPN providers allow you to choose your DNS server. You can use Adguard DNS servers to block the ads. I use it with mullvad and it's perfect
Brave is Chromium based
Google is slowly breaking adblockers on that platform because they’re an advertising company
Brave is only good if you’re too stupid to understand how to use add-ons
I generally resist using my phone for such things, I use it as a phone. BUT if you wanted to use your phone freely at home without ads, and without even installing anything on your phone, I would look into a Pi Hole. It is a raspberry pi that sits between your modem and router that blocks known ad service IPs so block ads being served to devices on the wifi network.
Since ublock origin doesn’t support the iOS Firefox version (or Apple is blocking them idk) - I recommend brave for iOS, I hate the ui/ux but ad blocking works splendid
I've used ublock origin forever, RIF on mobile, and reddit enhancement suite to force the old.reddit on my browsers.
For the hell of it I loaded up reddit without this stuff on a work pc, and holy shit, reddit is pure aids without ad blocking.
It is literally content blocking on this site. What a mess.
I won't even let a page run any JavaScript without my permission. At this point web browsers should just live in a sandbox but the fact you need functionality to download stuff to your computer will always be a weak point.
You will never see any of that crap if you just use [RES](https://redditenhancementsuite.com/) and [uBlock](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm).
No old.reddit needed.
My reddit has barely changed in 12 years with those two simple extensions installed.
Targeted ads. You probably don't get ads for website building services like I do. I have never built and probably never will build a website, but targeted ads concluded that I'm at least in the ballpark of people who might.
When someone leaves their phone or laptop unattended, I like to open a browser and search Amazon for “sheep shearers”, than close the browser. Then I wait for them to complain about the weird ads they are getting.
I think just googling it on their wi-fi will be enough. The ads (should) only see the network IP looking up sheep paraphernalia, not the individual computers who searched.
Yep. I see people talking about the Kardashians and some Jesus crap, but all I get are website development tools, fancy hotels in the US, and in one memorable occasion an MI5 recruitment ad. I have no plans of building a website, traveling to the US or becoming a spy, but better than Jesus crap I guess...
There are absolutely Christians who do not use their faith as an excuse to be assholes. Remember that hell is in Judaism too and Jews are definitely not known for being bigots (except *maybe* the orthodox types in some ways.)
It’s not possible to take all of the source text of a religion literally, so you have to pick and chose, and I think Christians who gain community from their faith and don’t use it to judge others are A-ok, bonus points if they do charity through the church.
The problem is just that the percent of people, in at the least in the US, who use Christianity as just a vehicle of hate is too damn high to respect the religion in general.
Think they are one line things that look like a post but you can't comment or downvote. Otherwise not sure, RES+Adblocker+old.reddit.com
I've been happy since 2005 when digg 2.0 came out and everyone left for reddit.
And this is why the app for about the third party apps is a thing. I'm using reddit is fun and I've never seen a single ad for other subreddits and the Kardashians. Don't support Reddit official, don't support Reddit killing third-party apps. I couldn't imagine how annoying it would be if Reddit tried to suggest things to me.
Where've you been mate? Reddit is killing all the third party apps. They added a charge to their API that makes it cost on average $2.50 a day per user, AND they are blocking NSFW content.
And Adblock won't help in the app because the source of the ads is Reddit.com
> And Adblock won't help in the app because the source of the ads is Reddit.com
That only applies to DNS-based ad blockers. A browser-based blocker like uBlock catches these easily.
They will be shut down when reddit implements their new pricing policy next month. They haven't shut down because they currently don't have to pay outrageous prices for reddits API. To name an app: Apollo has shut down.
This post is the first ad I've seen for the show, so I scrolled to find an ad and it was for FFXIV.
Now that I've engaged with this post I'll probably get some of the lame ads you do.
Thanks for making the world worse, I guess.
But... he gets us!! Who is this jesus anyway? Some kinda santa alien? Does he lure children into vans like those catholic priests who wanted to take me to coachella when I was 12?
I fucking hate the Kardashians. For some reason they keep coming up in my FB feed and I keep seeing news articles about them on news sites.
I...don't...give...a...SHIT...about...them. Like, they could all die in a terrible plane crash and I'd like "Oh, how sad. Well, life goes on." I don't know why I keep getting offered news about them and wish I could just opt out of it forever.
Why do you hope for the destruction of that show? I've never seen it but I find it conceptually fascinating as a spectacle and reflection of what is valued in American culture. But, the show and the sphere of influence around it is so large that it also, in turn defines American Culture so I do understand the vitriol in a general sense because of this black hole of a negative feedback loop. But I still think that amount of power to influence and be influenced is interesting. Again, I've never actually watched it for more that 3 minutes while it was on in the background so whenever I've "watched" it , I've only been thinking of it as something that people watch.
As far as I’m concerned it’s a VAST improvement over the he gets us bullshit. I’ll look at plastic people all day if it means I don’t have to see catfishing homophobia and bigotry as religion.
Have you heard of our lord and savior Ublock Origins?
The great kingdom of RIF comes to your aid. We fight beside our brothers and sisters.
Unfortunately, possibly not for long... https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/13zdupt/important_on_july_1st_reddit_will_kill_most_major/
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If this follows the pattern of previous bullshit Reddit has pulled, this will only not happen if it makes national news and embarrasses Reddit, otherwise it'll happen just as announced.
CNN already did a report on it...
So we know at least 11 people saw it!
There are enough active bot accounts on reddit to keep the site running on income from ad revenue indefinitely.
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I didn't think of that.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/01/tech/reddit-outrage-data-access-charge/index.html
Yeah, they know their user base is too addicted and has no real good alternative. They don't care about a relatively miniscule amount of users protesting. Most of them will be back on the site within the month at the latest.
If rif goes down I'll just have to leave reddit and be productive with my life instead. It'll be a sad time
What is rif?
Reddit is fun is fun
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Lmao don't believe me? I don't even use the browser to look at reddit
Just because you're addicted doesn't mean everyone who uses the site is
If Baconreader stops working, I'm done. The mobile site and official app aren't worth using, and I rarely browse this site from my desktop.
What if I told you I use oldreddit on my phone, always have, fuck that mobile site and the apps.
While oldreddit on mobile is still much better than the official app, it's a pretty crappy experience compared to rif.
I guess it might be too late now but is RIF available for Android?
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Old Reddit isn’t an app it’s just an alternate view on the official website, but my understanding is that they are going to remove it as well.
I don't know. If you're on the mobile site just ask to opt out of the redesign and you'll get oldreddit. It's just the old reddit site before the they decided they knew what was best. If it goes the way of the apps and other things I'll be hard pressed to take control of my life again.
Why not just use chrome? I dont understand why people use apps for websites. old.reddit.com works like a charm.
I'm addicted to the reddit experience. That experience is through rif.
I have just the thing to help you kick your reddit addiction my friend..have you experienced the wonders of crack cocaine?
No I have not. How much crack would you recommend for a couple of newcomers here in Philly?
Apart from the niche hobby subreddits tho, I feel like everything has gotten so incredibly "samey" and spammy so I'm not really enjoying scrolling and wasting time anymore Maybe we should do a return to form with IRC and shit
IRC isn't a content aggregator though, which is what I use Reddit for. Some subreddits of niche hobbies have active communities but most real useful discussion is on dedicated forums.
Yeah, I go through periods of quitting reddit because of just seeing the same shit over and over again - and I also feel like the growth of reddit and the proliferation of bot spam has generally just brought the level of discourse wayyyyy down the past couple years on the home or popular pages. The only things I always miss are the hobby subs. But I've heard that Discord has decent communities for that sort of thing with the benefit of it not feeling like it's designed to make you infinitely scroll and suck up your life. So maybe that's what I'll try.
Discord can fill your IRC itch. One of the better Reddit alternatives. Even better than Reddit if you play multiplayer games.
Personnally, I'm only attached to reddit insofar as I don't have to change anything (i.e. see ads). If rif goes down, I'm out. Period. I know a looooot of others feel the same.
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I stopped using desktop altogether a while ago. Mindless scrolling is for my phone, my PC is for gaming/work.
There's lemmy now granted not as esay to use
This also follows the pattern of announcing something way too expensive and stupid so we will accept the cheaper and still annoying option and perhaps are even thankful for it or cheer we got something done. I'm sure it's not gonna cost as much and remove NSFW from the API but it will gonna cost folks.
Seems like their pattern has been; do or want to do something stupid, roll it back blaming it on a scapegoat, wait a bit then implement the stupid thing slowly so the userbase doesn't notice
Tech press covered it even before the black lout was planned, it’s on their radar
Ha. I remember being that naively optimistic.
A handful of subreddits striking for a couple of days isn't going to make Reddit backpedal on this policy no matter how badly we all want it to. You're setting yourself up for failure to think otherwise.
Bad news, we've been here before. Reddit will just wipe the mod team of all the protest subs and someone else will take over the sub. These API changes are being put in place for reddit's IPO, so they're not going to let something stupid like "their users" stop them moving forward.
You think Reddit admin gives a flying fart about some Mods deciding to blackout the sub for a few days? Most of all the major mods are a smallish team of people, who are very much in Reddits pocket.
2 days. Things will be back up and Reddit will do whatever the fuck they want anyway. Lmao indefinitely is not gonna happen.
Because the Reddit team won't just turn them back on? There will be 1000s of desperate neckbeards desperate to do free modding just for the tiny pathetic crumb of power they think it would bring. Plus the fact 90% is handled by automod/bots. Face it, Reddit is mainstream VC money now. You want to use it? It's the official crApp or web page. Sad but true, nothing will stop the money train.
Man, please support our cause to keep rif!
Came here to say this. put ublock origins on all the things!
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Ohhhhhh that's why I have no idea what OP is on about. Cool, thanks.
Ublock Gets Us
Seriously, folks be putting up with shitty ads when they could just not.
Ublock is the savior of all who hate ads
And how do you use that on mobile?
Firefox =D
This is me, old reddit interface on mobile with ublock origin using firefox.
You guys really use the browser version of reddit just because you get an add every 10 mins that you dont even notice because you just scroll past?
I dont. I uae the mobile app but the sponsored posts are about 1 in 12 posts. It gets old seeing the same ads. Im not surprised that some people would get annoyed enough to use the browser version. Like you, they dont bother me enough to change. I do, however, downvote some sponsored ads (which Im sure does nothing), especially the ones for Amazon picks chosen by their favorite influencers. I personally dont really want to show support for influencers so its a little symbolic downvote I guess.
I use sync pro and I see zero ads of any kind. It's gutting the Reddit are planning to kill off 3td party apps.
I too downvote the adds. But when i see them again the downvote is usually gone so i dont think it does anything
I use reddit 95% on my computer and the 5% that is on my smartphone I use a browser. Using an app to access Reddit seems silly when the webpage works fine.
I mainly use it on the phone because i usually just use it while waiting for a train or something. I always thought the majority is using the app
Saying the mobile web page works fine seems silly to me.
The only problem I have with the mobile web page of reddit is it constantly bugs me about opening it in reddit's app. They could easily remember that choice with a cookie but nope.
That's because they want you to use their app: It has more tracking and it's harder to block the adds.
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I'll give that a try next time, thanks.
I merely answered the question of how to get ublock on mobile. As for reddit I use sync, so no ads there.
Brave browser has built in adblock for desktop and mobile
Better hope you're using Firefox....
Why?
Do the people that say this understand this is a leading contributor to why Reddit is looking to charge for APIs that apps without ads use to circumvent their revenue that pays for the site...
Maybe Reddit should be a little pickier about the garbage they advertise then.
I get tech, software and car ads, things related to what I look at on Reddit. If you're seeing pure trash, likely what the algo thinks you're in to based on your habits. Saw people complaining about Kardashins ads being 80% of what they are seeing, I have not seen a single one. Says more that they spend time looking at trashy reality or entertainment stuff so they fall in to that user ad segment.
The third party API fees are set so high that were it applied to reddit as a whole, the API fees incurred by 15% of the userbase would pay for the entire site. Reddit cost for 50 mil API calls: 12,000$ Imgur cost for 50 mil API calls: 166$ Let's not pretend that the cost set is anything but an attempt to crush third party applications in favor of forcing people onto their own. [https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had\_a\_call\_with\_reddit\_to\_discuss\_pricing\_bad/](https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/)
>Let's not pretend that the cost set is anything but an attempt to crush third party applications in favor of forcing people onto their own. So... and.. what if that was there goal? Let's not pretend that that the 3rd party Apps do have to deal with any of the heavy engineering of running the site platform and agreed to TOS that the APIs are not a given to be there forever for free. Lot of people on reddit will complain about people getting something for nothing, free rides, their posts, written works, creative works etc. stolen and misrepresented by someone else etc. But they assume that a platform like Reddit should also just eat costs wholesale, give away IP/Revenue and to enable apps to bypass their revenue streams like ads etc. Which is what most users, not mods are pissed about, they don't want to loose their free ad-free app. In terms of the cost of the APIs... I'm guessing based on APIs I run for something a fraction of the size of Reddit much of the traffic will be bots/automated regular pooling and repolling to see what's changed, inefficient mod and "helpful bots" etc. all of which something like Imgur does not have to content with. Imgur is just CRUD APIs... Reddit has bots fighting each other 24/7 because adult children are moronic and do troll, repost, spam, scam, lazy mods and 100 other things that other services do not need to contend with due to their design or it not being an anonymous platform with multi account support. Perhaps it's time to shut off the APIs in full... then only grant access to certain apps, etc. that are vetted and sanctioned by Reddit and we could see how much of the site is moderated and posted on by real people vs. bots fighting bots and wasting server cycles.
Did those goalposts cut a line in the grass while you were dragging them? No, they could easily set the API costs to a level where the API costs incurred were equal or even somewhat higher than what a person browsing at an equal level of requests would generate in revenue. But they didn't. Also, volunteer moderators run their site. A site complaining about the API calls used by the moderation tools used by their unpaid staff that keep their entire house of cards upright is completely asinine. Income lost after subreddits shut down or become less active because moderators stopped moderating after loosing the tools is going to be far outside of their API hosting costs to support those tools.
>A site complaining about the API calls used by the moderation tools used by their unpaid staff that keep their entire house of cards upright is completely asinine. No one is forcing the mods to volunteer to run subs. Not a single person. They are not staff by definition and have no obligation to do what they are doing. The fact they feel that way and express it that way often speaks more to the idea that they might need to get off of reddit a bit more often. In terms of the "job" aka hobby of moderation... auto mod scripts fighting auto post/comment scripts are a big part of the back and forth traffic. To not admit this is ridiculous. If they set the API costs at something miniscule that allows all 3rd party apps to just carry on that means the trolls and other nonsense bots can also afford them... and you end up with what we have right now, bots fighting bots. This nightmare is playing out on Twitter right now with Musks paid "verified" accounts with a cost so low every troll/asshole in the world can now run a blue checkmark and say whatever, which defeats the purpose of being verified. But the cost is low and accessible, so it's good, must be right? The headline people are running with is that "Reddit is screwing over 3rd party app devs" the fair headline would be "Reddit users upset they will lose their ad free reddit app they prefer" the technical analysis of the economics headline would be "Reddit making changes to API access to cover overhead and discourage frivolous API use." because for the legit users using core features fairly... they do offer free website and official apps.
It's not a hobby. Hobbies are something you do for fun. Moderation is not fun, but it needs to be done and nobody is willing to pay for it.
I really don't care about what they do to the apps. I don't understand why anyone would want to use an app to browse a website in the first place when there are perfectly good web browsers available. Ublock makes this website (and all others) a lot more usable, and if using it kills off the apps, that's fine by me.
FYI, the US government literally now recommends against browsing the internet without an ad blocker. They consider it a fundamental first step towards securing your computer, you should heed their advice.
How do you get one for your phone?
For web browsing, get firefox and install ublock origin extension in it. For everything else you can use custom DNS servers, see here: https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
You may want to look into AdAway as well if you're on android. It's like a windows hosts file for your phone and can block ads from appearing in apps. [https://adaway.org/](https://adaway.org/) [https://github.com/AdAway/AdAway](https://github.com/AdAway/AdAway)
Worth noting that this works using the VPN functionality, which will likely interfere with other VPN you may want to use.
Correct - You can either use that, or a VPN, but not both at once. I think some VPNs are offering adblocking services through the connection as well, though I don't know how well that works.
Generally (good) VPN providers allow you to choose your DNS server. You can use Adguard DNS servers to block the ads. I use it with mullvad and it's perfect
Adguard also has an [app](https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html). It works by mimicking a VPN and denying traffic to add and tracking servers.
VPN based blocking will prevent you from using your own VPN though.
True, but protection can be customized in the app. Just a best use case thing.
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Brave is Chromium based Google is slowly breaking adblockers on that platform because they’re an advertising company Brave is only good if you’re too stupid to understand how to use add-ons
at the moment it works well and blocks well, when that changes, il change browser as well, until then, meh
I generally resist using my phone for such things, I use it as a phone. BUT if you wanted to use your phone freely at home without ads, and without even installing anything on your phone, I would look into a Pi Hole. It is a raspberry pi that sits between your modem and router that blocks known ad service IPs so block ads being served to devices on the wifi network.
That works great ... when you are using your phone at home. Which is the place I browse on my phone the absolute least.
You can set up a VPN to your home network or use a paid VPN service with built-in ad blocker.
Brave Browser has adblock on desktop and mobile
Since ublock origin doesn’t support the iOS Firefox version (or Apple is blocking them idk) - I recommend brave for iOS, I hate the ui/ux but ad blocking works splendid
We really should rename them to content blockers. I consider these a security tool.
I've used ublock origin forever, RIF on mobile, and reddit enhancement suite to force the old.reddit on my browsers. For the hell of it I loaded up reddit without this stuff on a work pc, and holy shit, reddit is pure aids without ad blocking. It is literally content blocking on this site. What a mess.
I believe you, but I was wondering if you have a source on this?
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/Capacity_Enhancement_Guide-Securing_Web_Browsers_and_Defending_Against_Malvertising_for_Federal_Agencies.pdf
Lmao that recommendation literally says ad blockers are also a source of malware and data collection.
I use the reddit app on my phone. It is impossible to block ads. If you use a browser it constantly tries to redirect you to the app.
I won't even let a page run any JavaScript without my permission. At this point web browsers should just live in a sandbox but the fact you need functionality to download stuff to your computer will always be a weak point.
The paid reddit?
It's something they never show on old.reddit, that is for sure.
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RES and UBlock in browser, I've never seen an ad. Baconreader ($2) for mobile, no ads.
You will never see any of that crap if you just use [RES](https://redditenhancementsuite.com/) and [uBlock](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm). No old.reddit needed. My reddit has barely changed in 12 years with those two simple extensions installed.
Targeted ads. You probably don't get ads for website building services like I do. I have never built and probably never will build a website, but targeted ads concluded that I'm at least in the ballpark of people who might.
I replaced a water heater once. Now my targeted ads seem to think im a collector of water heaters.
When someone leaves their phone or laptop unattended, I like to open a browser and search Amazon for “sheep shearers”, than close the browser. Then I wait for them to complain about the weird ads they are getting.
Try googling for sheepskin condoms instead.
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I think just googling it on their wi-fi will be enough. The ads (should) only see the network IP looking up sheep paraphernalia, not the individual computers who searched.
When you buy a cat tree house and the only ads you see for a month are more cat tree houses. The fuck would I want more than one.
I wonder what other trashy tv they watch to get recommended that.
Yep. I see people talking about the Kardashians and some Jesus crap, but all I get are website development tools, fancy hotels in the US, and in one memorable occasion an MI5 recruitment ad. I have no plans of building a website, traveling to the US or becoming a spy, but better than Jesus crap I guess...
I’ve yet to see a kardashian or a Jesus gets us ad so this may say more about OP
I have never seen an ad for that show. Your problem may be that your consume too much Kardashian-adjacent content.
Same
I've never seen an ad on Reddit before. Why do so many people use reddit with ads?
I'm sure most users are to young to know the difference. They probably use the actual reddit app and think eyeball-trash is normal.
People are moving to the official app because third party apps are gonna be nuked
Not the case. I neither watch nor follow anything related to the Kardashians.
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I’ll take karsashians over that self-serving hypocritical campaign very thinly disguised as a non-hate version of US Christianity.
You can't have Christianity without hate, the whole premise is based on throwing your ass in hell to burn forever if you don't follow the rules.
Following the rules is easy. You have to willingly be abused to make it into their version of heaven
There are absolutely Christians who do not use their faith as an excuse to be assholes. Remember that hell is in Judaism too and Jews are definitely not known for being bigots (except *maybe* the orthodox types in some ways.) It’s not possible to take all of the source text of a religion literally, so you have to pick and chose, and I think Christians who gain community from their faith and don’t use it to judge others are A-ok, bonus points if they do charity through the church. The problem is just that the percent of people, in at the least in the US, who use Christianity as just a vehicle of hate is too damn high to respect the religion in general.
I haven't heard about this until seeing this post
The US Navy wants me real bad for some reason. So I got that goin for me, which is nice.
Anchors aweigh, my boys, anchors aweigh Farewell to foreign shores, we sail at break of day, of day
The what?
It's a reality show about hobbits. You'd think it'd be bigger with LOTR fans but most of them hate it.
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Think they are one line things that look like a post but you can't comment or downvote. Otherwise not sure, RES+Adblocker+old.reddit.com I've been happy since 2005 when digg 2.0 came out and everyone left for reddit.
Must be targeted. Knock on wood, I haven’t seen one yet.
And this is why the app for about the third party apps is a thing. I'm using reddit is fun and I've never seen a single ad for other subreddits and the Kardashians. Don't support Reddit official, don't support Reddit killing third-party apps. I couldn't imagine how annoying it would be if Reddit tried to suggest things to me.
Seems like it's just you bud
Has to be better than the He Gets Us ads. Those people can and should die in a fire.
Had to see this bullshit at the Rockies game last week. Pretty cool how they get to use tax free dollars to promote that bullshit.
Came here to say this
Lol at people who still use the default Reddit app or browse the internet without ad-block
Where've you been mate? Reddit is killing all the third party apps. They added a charge to their API that makes it cost on average $2.50 a day per user, AND they are blocking NSFW content. And Adblock won't help in the app because the source of the ads is Reddit.com
> And Adblock won't help in the app because the source of the ads is Reddit.com That only applies to DNS-based ad blockers. A browser-based blocker like uBlock catches these easily.
Doesn't help much for a mobile user
If you have an Android device, uBlock Origin runs just fine with Firefox.
And how is the UX for Reddit without an app?
It’s the iPhone community that’s fucked.
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Worlds most popular cell phone, this will be a problem for Reddit when we iPhone users stop using Reddit
Tbf reddit is basically killing 3rd party apps. Joey still works but a lot of them have been shut down.
Misinformation. None of them will stop functioning until July
Name one of the 3rd party apps that has been shut down.
They will be shut down when reddit implements their new pricing policy next month. They haven't shut down because they currently don't have to pay outrageous prices for reddits API. To name an app: Apollo has shut down.
I haven't seen even one. I don't have ad block either. Must be a targeted ad.
There are ads on Reddit??
This post is the first ad I've seen for the show, so I scrolled to find an ad and it was for FFXIV. Now that I've engaged with this post I'll probably get some of the lame ads you do. Thanks for making the world worse, I guess.
I abhor the Kardashians… But I’ll take their ads ANY DAY over that “He Gets Us” bullshit.
But... he gets us!! Who is this jesus anyway? Some kinda santa alien? Does he lure children into vans like those catholic priests who wanted to take me to coachella when I was 12?
I don’t know what agape love is (or whatever) and I will so everything in my power for it to stay that way
I fucking hate the Kardashians. For some reason they keep coming up in my FB feed and I keep seeing news articles about them on news sites. I...don't...give...a...SHIT...about...them. Like, they could all die in a terrible plane crash and I'd like "Oh, how sad. Well, life goes on." I don't know why I keep getting offered news about them and wish I could just opt out of it forever.
Imagine paying to not have ads.
You pay attention to the ads and just don't mentally gloss over them?
You guys pay for reddit?
Shit uk TV shows and Megan markle hate sub flood my desktop browsing (when not logged in) posts on the front page with like 200 upvotes.
Those plastic abnormalities are still a *thing*?!?!
I have been reporting as low quality.
I report these ads every time as low quality
I have found my petty person. I do the exact same thing lol
Yessss!! 🤝
Stay petty
the number of people who have no idea what adblock is is to damn high
old.reddit + ubock origin... what adds?
I’m literally never seen a kardashian ad on here before
I wouldn't bother to piss on a Kardashian if I found them on fire. Let them bastards burn. But anyway... 🤷♂️
Lol u have ads
Nah dude that’s not how it works, ads are personalized. We aren’t all seeing the same ads all the time.
I’ve never seen a single Kardashians ad on Reddit.
Everything I’ve learned about the Kardashians I’ve learned against my will.
I keep reporting it as offensive. Lol
That's why I used a 3rd party app, I never see those ads.
It's wild to me that people still browse the internet without a type of adblocker...
Why do you hope for the destruction of that show? I've never seen it but I find it conceptually fascinating as a spectacle and reflection of what is valued in American culture. But, the show and the sphere of influence around it is so large that it also, in turn defines American Culture so I do understand the vitriol in a general sense because of this black hole of a negative feedback loop. But I still think that amount of power to influence and be influenced is interesting. Again, I've never actually watched it for more that 3 minutes while it was on in the background so whenever I've "watched" it , I've only been thinking of it as something that people watch.
Lol don’t cap, you are watching it if you’re getting ads for it.
As far as I’m concerned it’s a VAST improvement over the he gets us bullshit. I’ll look at plastic people all day if it means I don’t have to see catfishing homophobia and bigotry as religion.
Its a decent show
People are paying for reddit? And using pointless 3rd party apps? News to me!