A big part of getting you to use their app is to data mine EVERYTHING about you. Unlike a web browser with an ad-blocker, an app can collect your location, location history, your call logs, your contact list and serve up unlockable ads.
Oh. Well, can I recommend NewPipe with Sponsorblock for your video perusal then? It also supports PeerTube instances, so it’s also a Fediverse video client! :D
There’s better phone operating systems around, I can firewall apps completely or lock them to use VPN only. And with android finally getting better permission controls, I can individually approve all of those datapoints you listed.
That’s great and everybody should do that, but it’s beside the point that an app running code on your device is there. It’s even better to do all of the above and still not use the bullshit apps when there is a website available.
I use GrapheneOS and I still don’t install anybody’s app. Discounts on hamburgers with an app? Fuck that. No app for you.
Actually yeah I do install some apps, but most are open source from F-Droid.
Yep, right now, using a search engine with Reddit in the query is still the best option to find an answer to something. Maybe Lemmy fits that in time, but until then, Reddit it is.
IMO no, there’s always a ton of (USER DELETED THIS COMMENT) or (COMMENT WAS REMOVED) or whatever. It’s like a Swiss cheese there. Sure reddit often shows up when you use websearch but if you specifically look towards reddit for answers? I don’t think that’s an efficient way to find good answers, although it might be a good way to find the answers you like.
I still start my search with site:reddit.com when looking for an answer. I just prefer opening the cached hits so that traffic doesn’t go to reddit but Google instead. Not like there weren’t problems with Google, but this is the closest I can get to “punishing” Reddit but also getting an answer to my question.
I suppose the data farmers administration saw that the chains of addiction wasn’t strong enough to overcome your dislike of the systematic abuse and had to lower the amount of psychological tricks to keep you coming back.
People who uses both reddit and lemmy, mastodon and twitter, facebook and friendica… Unless you’re doing it to harvest content for the fediverse, you might as well just stay on the mainstream platforms.
We’ll never be able to compete with the rest of the world until people leave those platforms and come here. So what do you gain from being on the fediverse? It’s slow, filled with stranger people, doesn’t have all that juice content you crave. It’s just people who are willing to make some sacrifices to work towards a better internet.
Does it work in +18 subs too? I tried to see a comment thread In a post of a LGBTQ subreddit, but the post/sub (idk what one) was flagged as mature content, that requires an account to login and read, and I wasn’t able to read them.
It was about gender symbols! Not p*rn, before someone ask…
Old.reddit is reddit from a time when it was designed with user experience in mind, rather than trend chasing and maximizing ad placement.
I’ve heard that the reason old.reddit is still supported is because new reddit can’t run without it. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if the developers of new reddit were pushed to rush something out to meet demands from higher up, and therefore didn’t make something clean and severable. I mean, we’re talking about a site whose video player wants to load every resolution at once on every video you scroll past in an infinite feed, my expectations aren’t terribly high.
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