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Thanks for this link. Opening reddit links on mobile is very frustrating for me because it opens the app and messes with the browser back button for me. Not sure if others have that problem too.

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My solution is just to uninstall the app

That's because you're not supposed to open reddit links anymore, you can just share your content directly with AI companies and ad brokers and cut out the middleman.

I had the same idea about the britcard - why doesn't the government just buy the information from the ad brokers?

On iOS Safari, long-press the link and select Open (or Open in Background). That will open the link in the browser instead of in the app, and Safari will remember that preference for the app. Select Open in Reddit to revert.

Also, don’t install the app? Use Sink It instead: https://gosinkit.com/

I'm a grovelling Linux fiend and usually support related posts. I tried to visit the url and saw it was blocked. Didn't want the post to die so archived it asap.

Note too, that NextDNS blocks archive.is et al by default unless you manually add redirects.

Whatta world

I’ve noticed that even on VPNs, US exit points sometimes block archive.is. Not sure if that is DNS related or what. Non-US VPN exit points don’t seem to be blocked at those times that the site navigation fails on US ones.

I believe NextDNS is headquartered in the US, which may be related to the site nav issues we’re both experiencing.

Curiously, uBlock Origin and my blocklists seem to block content on archive.is from loading from mail.ru, which may be related to the blocks, but I have never heard anyone on HN or elsewhere mention this, so I am, so that it can be known and explained if any explanation exists for why mail.ru scripts on archive.is are present. I don’t seem to see those scripts on the Tor version of archive.today, which archive.is is a mirror of today; apparently the original domain is the .is one, in any case.

Consider my curiousity piqued!

More info about the archive.is|.today mirrors including the Tor (.onion) version of the site are on the Wikipedia entry for the site:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

> archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.onion

Can you define "block" ? The archive.is owner do a lot of fake blocking behaviour if they don't like your IP , if you try to use an anonymizer

I mean that the page doesn’t even begin to load. I get early and often Google reCAPTCHAs on archive.is and its mirrors under normal operation over HTTPS/Tor, but I was referring to the site not loading in at all, and getting some kind of PTR/SSL error iirc when it happens, which is most/all of the time when using US VPN exit points over HTTP(S). I don’t experience these errors at all over Tor, because their Tor site doesn’t use certificates. I run HTTPS-only mode in the clearnet, so perhaps others don’t experience this issue on their machine(s), but I don’t want any kind of MITM and/or downgrade attacks to slip through the cracks, just in case.

More info about NextDNS (AS34939), which is indeed operated in a US jurisdiction:

https://bgp.tools/as/34939

I'm sorry I was unable to add anything. Keep digging though and it'll all soon be clear. And if you find anything substantial, butt into one of my comments sometme and let me know

Appreciate the feedback, I will do so more research and see what I can turn up. I had a quick question if you have a sec.

> Note too, that NextDNS blocks archive.is et al by default unless you manually add redirects.

Can you explain a bit about what you had to do to get archive.is to work with NextDNS? I have used their service/app before, but I’ve never dug into redirects via NextDNS, as I didn’t even know that was a thing you could do via the service.

Yes. But it requires a nextdns account (free).

You simply add New rewrites;

archive.is > 165.140.202.54

In your Settings

On Android "Redreader" is the only third-party Reddit app that somehow survived the third-party-app-purge. Still free and open source, and much more pleasant than the official one.

Would definitely recommend.

Thanks for this, I was resorting to creating a PWA on old reddit (which has horrible ergonomics for mobile) per subreddit (you can't rename them so I remember which is which by position) thinking all the reddit clients that don't require login are gone.

That was what I did for a year before I found out Revanced Manager had a patch for Reddit is fun. That was an inconvenient year.

The day Apollo died is the day I stopped logging in to Reddit, or going there regularly. I use old when I have to go there for more than a top-level reply from a Google search. I want to say they really goofed up, but tbh Reddit seems fine without me. I’m mostly fine without it, but I do miss a few of my communities.

Try pressing on the original link and opening it in another tab, that usually bypasses opening the app for me.

For the moment "yesterday for old reddit" on firefox android works quite well.

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