I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it’s crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.
Unfortunately now we’re going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like “TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023” to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.
Idk how helpful this is, but LibRedirect basically redirects all reddit links (and other websites like youtube, twitter, tiktok) in your browser to a privacy front-end that doesn’t do any tracking or ads or things like that which is better than using the official reddit site.
Thanks for this. It would be cool if it was available for FF on mobile. I suppose it will stop working for Reddit after the API changes.
If my programming was a bit better I’d make an extension that redirects to the most recent archive.org capture. That would keep working after the API changes and keep me from actually visiting Reddit. Maybe I should learn how.
I also use Firefox mobile and wish it was available there. I know I would be interested in what you suggested, just want to give those sites less foot traffic.
There is a mobile app(UntrackMe) that does a similar sort of redirecting https://fedilab.app/wiki/untrackme/
Redirector is another option for this. It’s a generic tool so it doesn’t have baked in rules, you have to specify your own. I use
^https://(old\\.|www\\.)?reddit.com/r/(.*)for the source pattern andhttps://your-favorite-libreddit-instance/r/$2as the destination.