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I haven't seen concerns about chat being handled by a third party partner (SendBird) addressed yet, so I'm going to try bringing those up again here:

• Does this mean that everyone's entire private message history will be stored by a third-party company? Who at that company has access to this data? What if SendBird gets hacked and every reddit private message is made public?
• Does your contract with SendBird prevent them from selling reddit users' data? Their privacy policy appears to explicitly give them permission to sell data.
• What if SendBird gets acquired by, say, Facebook? Facebook will have every reddit user's entire private message history?
• What if SendBird has an outage for hours? Reddit will have no private messaging during that time?
• What if SendBird suddenly shuts down? Are you able to replace their functionality in extremely short order, or is there potential for reddit to have no messaging system for months?

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Not really reddits fault though, I hope you realize that? Reddit was already a huge and known time waster when it only had messaging. Chat was surely just the straw that broke the camels back.

Anyways we have bluecoat where I work too and since I'm a sysadmin I can't have it randomly block important blogs or forums that I'm trying to read so I've setup a number of ssh tunnels and manage them with the Firefox plugin FoxyProxy. That way FoxyProxy recognizes by the URL which proxy I need to use and sends me through that tunnel.

Improvise, adapt, overcome. Or quit your job.

> Not really reddits fault though, I hope you realize that? Reddit was already a huge and known time waster when it only had messaging. Chat was surely just the straw that broke the camels back.

Most corporations probably use some sort of 3rd party filtering system in their firewall and whoever runs the categorizer bot had it recognize reddit as a chat service. This is kinda reddits fault because the chat runs on their main domain instead of a separate subdomain. If it did it would probably only categorize that subdomain as a chat service. I have a similar problem where I work, whatever service Zyxel uses has blocked imgur.

> Anyways we have bluecoat where I work too and since I'm a sysadmin I can't have it randomly block important blogs or forums that I'm trying to read so I've setup a number of ssh tunnels and manage them with the Firefox plugin FoxyProxy. That way FoxyProxy recognizes by the URL which proxy I need to use and sends me through that tunnel.

I do a similar thing, but I just use one SSH tunnel to my windows machine at home and then run a VPN over it. Has the advantage that it can work without ssh port forwarding which some firewalls can detect. But as a programmer or sysadmin nobody questions if you have random terminals open anyways.

> Improvise, adapt, overcome. Or quit your job.

As a sysadmin can't you just exclude yourself from the rules?

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I use sync for reddit and it doesn't freeze one bit, it's 100 times better than the official app

Play store link: Sync for reddit

To further touch on u/imariaprime's reply to you, a roadmap would definitely help with settling the users a bit and keeping everything transparent. Maybe you guys can setup a Trello for such purposes.

Time to be a relay shill again.

Great easy to use material design, but lots of power if you know how to use it properly.

Plus side, dev released an update on Christmas day. On the other hand he hasn't been seen in 2 months, so take that as you will.

Play store link: Relay for reddit

Same here, I keep seeing people complain about ads, while I haven't seen an ad on Reddit for years. Why complain when there's a solution that only requires a couple of clicks?

For those without an adblocker, here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#installation

Oh ok you must be entirely right

And this visual traceroute tool must be making up locations.

Cool. Cool cool cool.

Buy a good reddit app, personally using Apollo on iOS because the developer is a super cool guy who listens a lot to the community based around the app, they even have a subreddit IIRC.

Edit: and apparently a website too now: https://apolloapp.io/

Can confirm; setting my bookmark to https://old.reddit.com/ resolves any issues of having to even deal with the redesign.
That, and using RES's Night Mode looks better than the redesign's dark mode, imo...

Downsize the staff by 90% or so (starting with u/kn0thing), re-open the source code, stop attempting to censor the site and return to clear free speech principles and a totally hands off approach.

Stop selling the sites soul to VCs

http://alexisohanian.com/an-open-letter-to-kevin-rose

Encourage gold subscriptions as the primary means of sustaining the site, which should be much cheaper to run when the focus is on providing a platform for expression rather than censorship.

Alternately, I’d do exactly what u/yishan was planning:

https://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/06/reddit-came-close-to-becoming-decentralized-last-year/

I use the Typio extension (used to use Lazarus but it stopped existing), it saves all text field input history and has saved my bacon countless times.

Play store link : Relay for reddit
Promo Video : Relay

When this stop being supported, I am done with reddit.

Or use Pi-Hole: it removes ads network-wide, for every device, and without having to install any plugin or extension. Downside: you need a RasPi, or a VPS, or any computer that runs 24x7 and must have medium Linux skills.

I can understand the sentiment but it falls apart upon closer inspection. Intentionally using the official reddit app when there are far superior ones readily available is only shooting yourself in the foot. Edit: Check out Reddit is Fun.

Let's go!

Play store link: Relay for reddit

Yes, you need to access the advanced settings for that.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Advanced-settings

You need to enable the suspendTabsUntilReady setting. Caveats: tabs will take a bit more to load when you launch the browser for the first time.

Adnauseam does a good job too.

It is a free browser extension designed to obfuscate browsing data and protect users from tracking by advertising networks. At the same time, AdNauseam serves as a means of amplifying users' discontent with advertising networks that disregard privacy and facilitate bulk surveillance agendas.

>Option for mobile

For Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurencedawson.reddit_sync

Yea, this is what I ended up doing.

Using ad nauseam, a fork of ublock, I just select the chat box and block it.

I wish there's a more comprehensive list of javascripts that can be blocked to cleanly sanitize reddit.

This often happens when something on the page has a hover style or animation. If you put the cursor in just the right spot on the edge, the element gets a hover style that causes it to move out from under the mouse. That turns off the hover style for the element and it moves back under the mouse. Which adds back the hover style... Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Edit: Try this in Chrome

i am r/random lover so when the new design was created i had to create a script to use in my tampermonkey to generate random subreddits and i am happy to share with you Random Subreddit generator
Delay time is set to 3 sec

Tut

open reddit in new tab start the script when you come across some interesting subreddit pause the script and stop loading and open the post

Are you sure that your image doesn't have a rotation tag which some programs ignore? Smartphones and some other cameras sense their orientation and add a tag which tells software for viewing the image to rotate it so it is upright. Some software ignores that tag. If you then actually rotate the image so it displays properly in such software, but leave the tag, then other software which obeys the tag will rotate it again, making the orientation wrong.

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/ is a command line utility which will show you if a JPEG image has that tag, and allow you to remove the tag with or without rotating the image if you want.

https://diasporafoundation.org/

What is this about deleting /bin? I've never heard of Diaspora doing that.

Edit: It's almost a mix between twitter and facebook, only that It's libre and open source

> It would be incredible if there was a way that Reddit could autosave compositions much like Microsoft Word does.

Until Reddit decides to implement such a feature, best bet would be to install a extension to do this for you. If you use Firefox, you can use Textarea Cache, if Chrome, no idea. Typio looks decent.

I would strongly recommend using ProtonVPN as a free VPN option.

ProtonVPN has a free option, but makes their money from paid users. They also have a long history of being trustworthy.

If the vpn or proxy doesn't have a clear way they are making money, then they are making money by logging and selling your info.

If you ask me, entire Reddit app is garbage

The only advantage it has is the reddit chat and easy gilding which they have a monopoly on.

Try 3rd party clients, my favorite is Sync for reddit

Just look at the commenting features it has when you reply to a post

If it doesn't open automatically, maybe you could use this app to open it with your reddit client (I'm not sure if it works with all clients and links)

Sync for Reddit has this option, if you're on Android. Also, its IMO far and away the best Android Reddit client anyway.

you get Google Opinion Rewards and earn money, which you use to purchase the RiF golden platinum version

I’m using Relay for reddit

The official reddit app is garbage, and even their new mobile website is crippled because they constantly try to push the app on you.

Hi there. It runs primarily on linux. I use mine on a raspberry pi zero.

The installation is child's play. It runs a command that installs it all for you. Go into your router settings and change your dns settings to point to the raspberry pi ip. That's it. All ads are removed.

Check out their website. Loads of videos online about it.

https://pi-hole.net/

If we had a competent congress it'd be regulated and ideally security would be a top priority. Companies are already complete failures at even keeping our login information safe. They can't keep our passwords and credit cards from showing up on god damn darknet database dumps, yet we're supposed to trust them with information that could be used to basically make the equivalent of browser history to my entire god damn life.

api is application programming interface , its basically where outside stuff can send requests to a system to get info on something (say a user profile) or change something (like block a user). DB is a database, where all the info is stored. Heres a good readthrough on an api if you want to know more https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-an-api-in-english-please-b880a3214a82/

If reddit was making it clear they were exploring focusing on gold as a revenue model more than advertising to become independent and return to their prior ideals I would support it:

> We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it. Not because that's the law in the United States - because as many people have pointed out, privately-owned forums are under no obligation to uphold it - but because we believe in that ideal independently, and that's what we want to promote on our platform. We are clarifying that now because in the past it wasn't clear, and (to be honest) in the past we were not completely independent and there were other pressures acting on reddit. Now it's just reddit, and we serve the community, we serve the ideals of free speech, and we hope to ultimately be a universal platform for human discourse

But instead, they seem to want to use the increased revenue to hire more bodies to actively censor the userbase.

Reddit in its prime was just 4 guys building a communications platform.

Now it's 400 employees controlling a community, it's a big shift; and not a good one.

The changes themselves are just a price hike and setup for an attempt to foster a micro transaction culture on reddit.

Reddit once had some very revolutionary ideas about micro transaction currencies:

https://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/06/reddit-came-close-to-becoming-decentralized-last-year/

But the new gold update is just a weak sauce revenue grab.

I feel your pain.
These ad were bothering me so much that I created a Chrome Extension to wipe out all ads ( in feed and sidebar ) while scrolling. You can get the same result with Ad-blockers but this was fun nonetheless.
Gif below
http://recordit.co/1UsPdfnF0n

(Extension isn't public but can be :) )

I use AdNauseum, https://adnauseam.io/

It is a fork of uBlock Origin doesn't just block the ads, it also randomly "clicks" those with click tracking and such in order to ensure that all the advertising data collected is entirely useless.

Chrome blocks it (even sideloading it doesn't work) due to a "disagreement" between Google and AdNauseum's developers, so it only works under Firefox / Opera and browsers compatible with plugins for those, or if you enable Chrome's developer mode.

Same problem here, Firefox 60.0.1 . I managed to trace it back to the I don't care about cookies add-on, which seems to be a bit overzealous with its popup-blocking here.

There are plenty of ad blockers on mobile as well. They block ads not only in the browser but across other apps as well.

Non-Rooted: AdGuard (works as a VPN)

Rooted: AdAway (blocks ads from inside the OS)

No idea what ad block apps iphone users have, but there should be ones for it as well.

Not all end-to-end encryption causes such effects.

"The OMEMO encryption /oˈmiːmoʊ/ (OMEMO Multi-End Message and Object Encryption) gives you all the advantages you would expect from a modern-day encryption protocol like Future and Forward Secrecy and deniability while allowing you to keep the benefits of message synchronization and offline delivery."

Website: https://conversations.im/omemo/

Security audit: https://conversations.im/omemo/audit.pdf

Kiwi also supports extensions, but if you need something that works or of the box I suggest brave as it has a build-in ad blocker that works great.

Try Boost for reddit ( r/BoostForReddit ) . I have it on my android phone and I never run into any problems like this.. If you have a android phone here's the link...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.reddit

You can use an app like Pocket to add bookmark features to any app that can share links

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ideashower.readitlater.pro

A lot of sites have mobile apps which means the browser bookmarks are unavailable on mobile, for that I use Pocket. Pocket also has a webapp so I can view saved stuff on my desktop later.

Woo relay

Play store link: Relay for reddit

I disagree with Relay being better.

I used Relay for a long time until I was bored one day and decided to go looking at other Reddit apps.

Downloaded around half a dozen. Sync was one of them.

Haven't used Relay since.

Sync is perfect, in my opinion. I can't find any faults with it.

Play store link: Sync for reddit

Or just use a different app.

I'd recommend relay, its amazing.

Play store link: Relay for reddit

Boost does the same thing. I used RedditIsFun for a couple years before switching, and I really enjoyed it. RIF kicks ass. That being said, I have been using Boost for Reddit for a little while now, and it's hands down the best Reddit app. I have tried yet.

Yeet.

Gotta use Relay.

Play store link: Relay for reddit

> Would love to hear what people think about things like location sharing.

Location sharing would be troublesome for subs like /r/gonewild and we would prefer it not be an option. If people want to share their location they can use other ways, which gives people a little hurdle to cross before they give it out, giving them a bit more time to really think about it and wonder if it's the right thing to do.

But do add Gboard functionality, IE make sure it works with Gboard. Some apps like snapchat don't allow full gboard functionality, for example adding gifs, google search/translate/maps etc right in chat.

Google Play

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.reddit.frontpage&hl=en

iTunes

• https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-official-app-all-thats-trending-and-viral/id1064216828?mt=8

> Save features

For those unaware, you can install RES, a browser addon that brings all sorts of nice improvements to reddit, along with adding the option to save posts and comments locally, similar to how the gold feature works, for free.

Play store link : Relay for reddit
Promo Video : Relay

I also like Infinity for Reddit (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ml.docilealligator.infinityforreddit

Dev releases a lot of updates, but ultimately it's personal preference.

Apollo for iOS is very good (did not try): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575

Install the reddit is fun app, I liked it enough I paid them a few dollars for the gold version of the app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu.android.reddit

I tweaked a few settings and it's been pretty good for me. I enable the card UI and disabled page dividers.

I can't say I know If there is a better app, if you come across one I'd be happy to try it.

Relay on Android just doesn't have it.

Play store link : Relay for reddit
Promo Video : Relay

You must dump the Reddit app.

Allow me to introduce you to Infinity for Reddit. Extremely feature-rich app with 0 ads, and one of the best UIs.

To turn on the option in Infinity: Settings -> Videos -> Mute videos

Sync

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurencedawson.reddit_sync

Reddit Sync is the King of the King

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurencedawson.reddit_sync

Play store link : Relay for reddit
Promo Video : Relay

I always come back to this one

That's a lie.

https://adblockplus.org/android-install

There are multiple ways to block ads on a phone. That means more than one. Android web browsers with ad block include Brave Browser, Firefox Focus, Kiwi Browser, Samsung Browser, and a few others have ad blocker add-ons like Firefox and Dolphin Browser. If you can't seem to figure out how to block ads, you probably deserve to see them.

Also see: https://pi-hole.net

Steemit looks interesting. Built on blockchain, it becomes much more communal and decentralize. In theory immune to the type of censorship and monetization fuckery we’re seeing at reddit.

Install res and never look back. Reddit without enhancement suite is.. barbaric. https://redditenhancementsuite.com/

Barebones reddit if you want, and you can also defeat those annoying css with a single click.

Ahh.. you've got to just listen to it. It's worth it. Do it while your working or driving. Here is the link to the stream and here is the transcript

There is a line that applies to this comment thread, where they sum up what Reddit is supposed to be. So, hopefully, which I doubt anyone will really see this thread, they will go back to this original concept and the mission statement of reddit and stay true to it.

HUFFMAN..."And so - and then we also love Slashdot - Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. It's still online. And Slashdot had this incredible community. You know, you go there for news every day, but really, the magic of Slashdot lived in the comment section. And so the idea was, can we take the mechanics of Delicious - user-submitted and kind of this top - Billboard Top 40 effect - and combine it with good content and a good community? And that was the genesis of Reddit..."

Then it is a bug. As I said though, Vivaldi is not a standard browser, so the devs may choose not to try to fix it. Personally, if it is not on this list, I do not support it or make a push to support it. I would see if you can reproduce the issue on another browser on your OS as then it will probably get more attention.

I usually do not like using those one off browsers like that because then they could do who knows what to the rendering/Javascript engine and break things that normally work in the browsers they are based on (looks like Vivaldi is roughly based on Chromium, but looks like they have made their own modifications to it).

Are you sure? Teddit doesn't use Javascript, so it shouldn't be able to detect whether or not you use an adblocker. Make sure you're using the official instance at teddit.net or one of the community instances listed here.

I run Firefox 59, but the setting in about:config under privacy.resistFingerprintingwas set by default to false.

I've enabled it now, and amiunique is confused about my machine, claiming I use FF52 (should be Tor browser if it's detecting that privacy.resistFingerprinting is set to true), and it has other things wrong, including screen resolution and Windows version.

Browserleaks canvas fingerprinting test page shows me as Tor browser, which I understand is what it should be showing if it's working. (I did a bunch of research after asking the question because I was honestly curious).

It blocks all JavaScript. It's an add-on for Firefox.

https://noscript.net/

I've been using it for something like 12 years so I have a pretty big whitelist of all the sites I frequent so I don't get bothered by it too much, but for new users it requires a lot of user interaction.

I'm using AdGuard on my phone.

You can try free version first and if you decide to buy it, it is much cheaper via Stacksocial than official web site or in-app purchase.

https://stacksocial.com/sales/adguard-personal-plan-lifetime-subscription/

FYI a better specification is CommonMark, an attempt to standardize the language. http://commonmark.org/

The original was made by "Daring Fireball", https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

Sounds like an issue with automatic list formatting. The system thinks you're starting a new numbered list, which would start with 1.

See this page: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list

Quoted:

> It’s important to note that the actual numbers you use to mark the list have no effect on the HTML output Markdown produces.

The only way to avoid this is to either not use lists, or make sure your lists don't "break" and start a new list.

Sounds like an issue with automatic list formatting. The system thinks you're starting a new numbered list, which would start with 1.

See this page: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list

Quoted:

> It’s important to note that the actual numbers you use to mark the list have no effect on the HTML output Markdown produces.

The only way to avoid this is to either not use lists, or make sure your lists don't "break" and start a new list.

Sounds like an issue with automatic list formatting. The system thinks you're starting a new numbered list, which would start with 1.

See this page: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list

Quoted:

> It’s important to note that the actual numbers you use to mark the list have no effect on the HTML output Markdown produces.

The only way to avoid this is to either not use lists, or make sure your lists don't "break" and start a new list.

Agreed. (Also "pink on light-grey"? I know this isn't stackoverflow but that can't be the best option? I wonder what ckeditor.com currently does for code highlighting.) Can we lift code highlighting from vim.js ?

Third party apps are a way better experience than trying to browse reddit on a mobile browser. Give Relay a try and see for yourself.

Same.

Play store link : Relay for reddit
Promo Video : Relay

(It's a macro in Relay.)

I just have 20 ad blockers installed and I pay for the cheapest VPN out there (PrivateVPN) and this shit doesn't bother me.

If I do get ads, and I plan on returning to said site, I just turn on my PiHole (My router is much faster than the transfer speeds on my PiHole, so it slows down my internet when I use it)

You can get BaconReader, which is available on iOS (I used to use that one). I think Firefox Mobile for iOS also supports extensions like uBlock Origin and can now be set as your default browser.

Or if you get a VPN subscription to somewhere like Private Internet Access, they have an ad blocker mode which applies to your whole device, no matter what type of device it is. This blocks ads in other apps as well.

Play store link : Relay for reddit
Promo Video : Relay

God I sure do love the refreshing taste of Coke^tm if we all could come together and drink Coke^tm we might actually have a chance at world peace. Did I mention that Come^tm tastes great and is very refreshing.

[God I sure do love the refreshing taste of Coke^tm if we all could come together and drink Coke^tm we might actually have a chance at world peace. Did I mention that Come^tm tastes great and is very refreshing.

](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Feed-M-T-Anderson/dp/0763662623&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiV6JfmuOPtAhVuoFkKHWfQB0MQFjAUegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw0vPgbu8UOFHfKijG6NriRX)

We already have that with the chat system. I don't know if you can send images and chat but you do have to approve people before they can talk to you.

IIRC they can say one message to open with and then need approval for more? I never use it because I always use mobile with Sync which doesn't support it

I use the following and just filter stuff out.

Play store link : Relay for reddit
Promo Video : Relay

If you're on Android use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.reddit&hl=en

Best app for browsing reddit. Customizing everything in your feed the way you want. Official app is terrible.

The official app is trash (for multiple reasons). 3rd party is the only way to go. I recommend Relay or Apollo.

you should have a look at the rif - is fun for reddit app, this is actually what reddit should have done with there app but are unable because reasons.

I use WindScribe for my VPN. I joined under a special that gives me 50GB free each month, and I bought an unlimited one year plan at the beginning of the year for $20.20 that was only offered to 50GB users.

Suspiciously cheap, but it works.

For anything requiring actual privacy I use RiseUp or Proton.

I'm using Boost as my mobile client (tablet and phone) and I don't really have any of these issues.

https://i.imgur.com/2D3HhDJ.png

I don't remember when the developer got around to polishing formatting but it's been solid for a while now. There are some edge case things that don't work perfectly (some unicode black magic fuckery) but for 99% of my usage it's great.

Use whatever you prefer, I just wanted to point out that formatting isn't the bugbear it once was for Android apps.

I think you're lost.

But while we're here I am going to recommend you read Bright-Sided so you can get a better, more well rounded idea of how the world works and what makes things happen and gets goals achieved. Spoiler alert: the whole "positive thinking" thing isn't it!

Thanks for the heads up, I accidentally included the word "to" in the link, this should work: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tasomaniac.openwith

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(I wonder why 2 people upvoted my comment while it had a broken link?)

You are right: you need to set it up on every single WiFi network you don't own, and won't work on mobile. You can make it work with DNS Changer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.burakgon.dnschanger&hl=en), but I don't use it so I don't really know how good it is (or isn't), or battery consumption.

Sync app best app.

Play store link: Sync for reddit

/u/ljdawson best /u/ljdawson

Edit: I've just realized I have shilled for this app so much that SwiftKey suggests ljdawson after /u/

I haven't personally used Hermit because I have a 16gb Walmart phone, but.. it replaces large native web-based apps with a more 'lite' version. Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Youtube all can be used within Hermit and it does include built in ad-blocker.

I don't know if the message "download our app" would be blocked.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chimbori.hermitcrab

This was posted on /r/android a few weeks back, but its still beloved in that sub.

It isn't, but other users have recommended Relay for Reddit and Sync for Reddit. Honestly though, I wouldn't worry about finding a Reddit client that you'll like on Android since there are so many options!