Yea many people have this same problem, including me.

I went far to try to not get shadowbanned.

Downloaded a virtual machine > installed Ubuntu with all configs set to Netherlands > Only boot it when VPN to Netherlands is on > Downloaded Google Chrome > Accepted all kind of cookies I’ve seen > Created a new outlook email with the same IP > Created a Reddit account with SMS confirmation from Neatherlands and confirmed email.

My account lasted 5 days, I was able to post once, many people commented and upvoted, after that they removed all my posts and shadow banned my comments.

I also got a timeout of 6min between comments (more or less) since first day.

At the end it doesn’t worth it. The platform is full of toxicity and AI bots, here is a much healthy place, for now at least.

They’re flagging everybody, it’s nearly impossible to interact there as a new user. Worst part it that it’s not preventing bots, you still see a lot of AI generated posts and comments.

Not much if the guy isn’t bullet proof, any weapon would kill him, surely it won’t be like movies where heroes dodge bullets all the time.

I wonder if you can run Waydroid on mobile linux, it’d feel like an Android phone, but you’ll have more control over it because it’s actually just a container inside your OS, easily root etc…

They can’t know at what minute you paused or resumed a video via server side (this is sick to me)… Actually, this doesn’t even make sense, if they are able to know all of that via server-side why send redundant data via client-side?

I took a look and besides the amount of info they send, what draw my attention is that they send an accurate flag if you’re using an adblocker or not, not sure why tho, but they know who use and who don’t, they just chose to do nothing.

There are way more if you inspect it closely.

It’s the endpoint of new reddit that I mentioned in the post, if you block it the feed won’t load anymore.

I tried to use it a few days ago and the toxicity is insane, it feels like Reddit is filled with trash talking kids to draw attention to themselves or AIs.

You can’t have a healthy discussion there anymore.

How would this be better than Linux mobile?

You really can’t tell that this isn’t being used for evil practices, personal info is leaving your machine via client-side requests, end of story. You can use your judgement, but by fact, you can’t really tell anything. I wouldn’t trust Reddit, if you trust them good of your.

If you want to believe Reddit is using it merely to make their website to work properly, be my guest.

Yes, so when we’re talking about calls to /api/* we’re talking about old.reddit.com, I didn’t say anything about calls to this endpoint on new reddit, the problem with new Reddit are calls made to https://www.reddit.com/svc/shreddit/events with a lot of trackers. It can’t be blocked.

The point isn’t the endpoint call, the point is while accessing old.reddit.com it’s making calls to reddit.com, I inspect it closely, reddit.com/api has no use when you’re using old.reddit.com, the calls to the website work are made to old.reddit.com/api, the calls for tracking are made to reddit.com/api. And old reddit isn’t a SPA, you can access it with JS disabled.

Inspect this request by yourself and you’ll see, they send info about everything, this is not normal. If this is normal all Ublock Origin team work is non-sense, why bother blocking trackers on client-side? If, according to you, they can tracker the same way via server-side.

Blocking this request is a layer of protection, not a silver bullet to not be tracked, other means should be used for that.

It should explicit start with “www.reddit” or it’ll be targeting “old.reddit.com/api” which is used for site features. Then you’ll see everything works as usual, no issues, but this request is blocked (the trackers).

The two worst things you can do on Reddit: Discuss politics, discuss politics in mainstream subs

Indeed, it’ll work, you just won’t be able to interact, upvote/downvote, join subreddits or comment etc…

If you’ll not interact at all better to use RedLib (private frontend red.artemislena.eu), I think they’ll hide even your IP address (not sure tho).

Add this:

www.reddit.com/api/*

It must explicit start with www.reddit or all the old reddit won’t work.

You should see this when you open your Network tabs of DevTools (F12)

The first one has no effect if you’re using old.reddit.com

Pasting my other comment here:

They can’t, the information you get server-side is limited compared to client-side. They might know what sub I follow and where I like to interact, but that’s not enough compared to sending constant information of everything you do. If it was enough, they wouldn’t need to track people client-side, right?

They can’t, the information you get server-side is limited compared to client-side. They might know what sub I follow and where I like to interact, but that’s not enough compared to sending constant information of everything you do. If it was enough, they wouldn’t need to track people client-side, right?

Yes, that’s what I told uBO team when I opened a discussion on their sub, they said they tried it but some functions like chat stopped working properly.

I’d try it myself but I think I really don’t care that much anymore, let it just die already.

Yes, redlib do the job if you want to be completely anonymous, same as Invidious.

They can fingerprint you and trace a profile about your personality, this can be used for a lot of things.

Imagine if they know exactly what are your tastes, you don’t see ads, ok, you were able to block every unwanted visual interference. But imagine a new platform appears, you access it and by your IP, e-mail, phone number or even nickname they know it’s you before you registering there.

Reddit sell all your data for this new platform, the new platform can show you some sweet content that matches exactly you taste, you’ll think “this is awesome, everything I like is here”, it’ll make you access it more often, contribute to it, later they add paywalls, mandatory ads, then you know… You’ve being manipulated already. You can’t live without it and will be force to accept their terms.