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Comment by fnord123 | Hacker News Reader

The preferences require that you're logged in. If you're logged in, then reddit knows how frequently you're checking r/ChainLinkFences.

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There's a Firefox add-on that will ensure that you always see the old Reddit, even without logging in.

Not on mobile though...

Well, full support for add-ons is coming to Firefox Nightly for Android soon(ish), at least.

On mobile and non-mobile, I use Firefox' Redirector addon to redirect all reddit links to https://ns.reddit.com/* which might be the same as old.reddit.com

Then download one of the many applications that use reddit's API and enjoy it before they shut down that too.

The problem seems bigger than user hostile UI.

If the company decided to make the UI not friendly, they will likely continue to make user hostile decisions in the name of maximising growth and profits.

In this case using addons seems like playing catch up with low chance of a long term win.

... checks r/ChainLinkFences ...

NOW there's a sub that needs more love imho.

Wouldn’t they know via fingerprinting your device via the device settings or IP?

They could but seeing how good Reddit's UI is, how good do you think their log scraping is? And do they have the budget for keeping all access logs of anonymous users so they can try to line up all the ChainLinkFence enthusiasts with the people who also frequent r/MarijuanaEnthusiasts and r/WhiteMenGoneWild.

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