I got banned for having compassion and I must say, you guys are much better company. Reminds me of Reddit 15 years ago. Like the internet when it was only nerds :) I didn't realize how stupid people had gotten until I came over here and was blessed with proper sentence structure and spelling. I hope more people get off Reddit, it's almost as bad for your mental health as Facebook.
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UBlock origin lite on iOS is able to block it just need to make a custom filter :)
You can block ads on the site but not in the app.
And all that pesky telemetry
Just read the permissions of their app, & know why it's untrustworthy.
- take picturs and videos
- record audio ( these may be a problem, if they can do it when you don't know it's happening )
- advertising ID permission
- ready sync settings
- run foreground service
- run at startup
- read user selected image and video files from shared storage ( this isn't the problem: this is The Proper Way )
- read badge notifications
- view network connections
- prevent tablet from sleeping
- access to AdId API ( that's ad id, not adLd )
- view Wi-Fi connections
- use fingerprint hardware
- show notifications
- receive data from internet
- install shortcuts
- read Google service configuration
- read audio files from shared storage ( these ARE the problem: they can upload ANY audio/video/image file they can find, up to them, & you've "agreed", .. so they could "legally" harvest personal-images/videos from all app-user's phones, & you'd have no legal basis to sue them )
- read video files from shared storage
- read image files from shared storage
- control vibration
- Google Play billing service
- toggle sync on and off
- detect screen captures of app windows
- have full network access
- use biometric hardware
- Play Install Referrer API
- change your audio settings
- run foreground service with the type "dataSync"
TBH, I'm astonished they didn't require Contacts permission, which apparently also grants the right to upload-to-them all one's messages ( made me sick, when I found that out ).
DO NOT INSTALL UNTRUSTWORTHY APPS.
Apps should have ONLY the honestly-required permissions, NOT permissions which gaslight about valuing/protecting/serving the user.
No more ruled-by-machiavellian-clowns.
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I think some of those permissions can be granted and revoked on a granular basis (even file management, IIRC), but many of them cannot be. Advertising ID cannot be, for example. That connects directly to the Google Play Services app, and the only way to stop it is to either delete Play entirely, or pray that Google respects whatever setting you have to flip three screens deep.
Is there an app that scans all your apps for permissions that you dont want but may have overlooked or had been preinstalled?
“ Disclosure: Advance Publications, which owns Ars Technica parent Condé Nast, is the largest shareholder in Reddit. “
Holy shit
You're either one of the 10,000 or have been living under a rock. CN has been the largest owner for the better part of 15 years.
I think you overeatime the average person's need to look into parent companies of things.
Surprised they haven't killed the old frontend already.
I mean, fuck Reddit. Why else would I be here
Yeah. Re blocking mobile site was the last straw for me. Not opening reddit in mobile anymore.
Before I got banned, I was mostly there for the porn.
It was football mainly for me. I won’t lie though the porn was quite good.
I always thought of it like free-ranged porn. Like the women are allowed to post what they want, work with who they want, it's all fun/fresh amateur stuff, and I dont have to pay for it. It was a great ecosystem.
Now I'm stuck on things like pornhub where it's all very fake and the it's all studio shit. I can't just follow independent people doing their own thing, it's all sterilized, overtly fake, etc.
You know there's a whole lemmy instance for this right?
I did not. Any ... uh directions for a wayward soul?
Bingo, couldn’t have described it better.
It’s genuine.
The overlay could be removed with an ad blocker, or they could switch to Desktop View, or they could switch to Old Reddit.
Even better, they could switch to the Threadiverse and not need to deal with a company progressively tightening the belt on user freedom for profit maximization.
For now, you can clear cookies and the pop up goes away. I suspect they will eventually retire the website, as is mostly the case for tiktok, which is pretty much impossible to use on the web. Corporations in general are trying to destroy the web in favor of apps, and consumers have been trained to expect everything to be an app, so there's a risk that someday browsers as we know them will be a niche web technology.
Either tiktok or instagram (forgot which one) can display video posts on the website frontend but not picture posts. Baffling.
IMO ad blocking is the best and only answer here. The Old and desktop sites are okay, but pretty tough to handle on a mobile device. Especially one without an ad blocker
That's incorrect, leaving the platform is the best answer.
Secondarily there is alternative frontends like Stealth, Libreddit and Troddit.
Oldlander extension and old.reddit.com is pretty good. I prefer RedReader, though.
Touché. Although I hope that by the point people have extensions on their mobile browser, they have an ad blocker too!
I tried to remove it with uBO and it still wouldn't let me scroll no matter how much I zapped
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I got a 15+ year old account perma-banned because i said "GME" somewhere i shouldn't have. Reddit is trash.
General Motors Europe? Yeah, that's a bad word on r/fuckcars.
Reddit, the front door of the Internet, slammed in your face, because fuck you, that's why
That's why I'm trying to spend more time here.... this needs to grow, and while I've only lurked and not contributed to Reddit for over a year now, I guess I'm not even lurking anymore. Funny because I still see ads when I use the mobile site... that not good enough? Fuck you too then.
Get active on the fediverse people.
Lemmy will never betray you like this
Hey now I'm sure someone will find a way. I trust in the ability of humans to ruin everything.
If that happens you can just create an account on another instance and move your data over. Thats the beauty of Lemmy’s federated design
Run your own instance
That also works. That's how you get gems like therock.fraggle-rock.org
So what you're saying is we should expect a new influx of users soon?
Since I’ve been here it’s been steadily growing. Not that I’ve really noticed but according to some there have been bursts of population growth.
Surprised it took them this long.
Next will app only on mobile or, as with Xitter, only allow logged out users to see the OP but none of the comments. Or both!
Won't it be fun waiting to see how and when they do it? 😒
The block seemed curious, given that Reddit began as a website, and websites generally want traffic. Few are in the practice of turning traffic away.
My man hasn't used the internet in a while...
The vast majority of social media platforms are in the practice of denying access in order to coerce you into logging in or downloading their app so that they can mine your data and harass you into coming back.
Some of that probably has to do with AI scraper bots as well.
Yeah they booted me while I was on the app for my comment so they wanted me gone.
They got what they wanted if the intention was to keep me away. I wasn’t the only one I don’t think, I have a feeling the post (which from memory was on the world news sub) had a few people on it that got booted at the same time.
My comment was agreeing with a Muslim that the bloke who disarmed that Bondi shooter and didn’t shoot him was that he is a man of peace based on religion as many of them are.
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