Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 1 day agoWell luckily (for now) you can still read any posts there without logging in if you follow the link from a search engine.
if you are looking for a specific post copying the address into google and clicking on it from there for instance will get you the reddit post without logging in.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
OP showed a screenshot for
old.reddit.comwhich is the older UI from ~2014. I have a rewrite rule in an extension that turns all reddit links into this to get the better old UI even when clicking through from a search engine result, and got the same message a few hours ago.the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I literally just did it to make sure you could before i posted this. It still works as of this post.
www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?q=https%3A%2F%2Fold.…
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
hmmm, maybe it’s the extension that’s not passing the referrer information in my case? I am using “Old Reddit Redirect”. The URL in that search result still shows
www.reddit.comwhen I hover over the link, and when I open it and the browser extension changes the URL toold.reddit.comwhich is where I get the login prompt.I guess other extensions might rewrite the link destination, but then that would require more access to the extension to read/write the contents of every site visited, which is too much for me.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh I agree it’s too much work but should you need it there is at least a work around
Davel23@fedia.io 1 day ago
I have Old Reddit Redirect and you link takes me to the Reddit login page.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Perhaps a browser refresh?, I just tried it on a different machine with waterfox and just old reddit redirect and it went to old reddit no login needed.
The matter is pointless anyway if reddit wants to die let them.