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Comment by victor9000 | Hacker News Reader

UBlock Origin can clear those on FF mobile with one of the Annoyances lists

I use a patched version of the last released version of redditisfun. Basically, you grab the AppID from when you install RedReader, authenticate it with your account (they send it to you in an email) and then patch redditisfun using that AppID with ReVanced or Morphe. I've been using redditisfun for like 15 years, not really interested in moving to their official app. All of the legacy features work fine.

Only weird thing is that since RedReader censors all NSFW posts and your RiF is now tied to that API token, you need to make yourself a mod of a subreddit to be able to view anything NSFW. RedReader is the only allowed 3rd party app because it's meant for screen readers. In the past few months, Reddit turned off the ability to make API tokens for that would enable RiF to keep working but they've since changed the policy so they have to approve your request and a 3rd party app is not a good enough reason. Although I see a ridiculous amount of bot spam so clearly their war on API access is not really working that well.

Why bother with all that? Just quit Reddit and your sanity will improve, unless you replace Reddit with HN.

The challenge lies with whether the things you go to reddit (or any other service/product) for are concentrated or exclusively there, such as discussion or information on a particular topic. There's a lot of communities where they've concentrated their resources on a free site and are at the mercy of the whims of the owner, discord is another. Very often there's no simple switch to an alternative without losing a lot, or hoping on the charity of others to spend effort migrating.

What's an example of this?

I prefer Sync but my installation has broken, and even after patching it with RedReader's AppID using Morphe I still get status 401.

I used to use rif, but I switched over to redreader and I'm used to it now

If you're on iOS, you're out of luck. FF extensions aren't supported.

Orion browser can run standard type block lists on iOS. But depends how uBlock is specifically implementing this

Take a look at https://apps.apple.com/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id6449873635.

Brave is on iOS and will block 'use the app' notifications'.

You can hide distracting items in safari to remove the popup.

True. But for me, I hide the “fuck you asshole, use our app!” bottom overlay, and it does go away, but then scroll stops working!

For a while the overlay blocked touch events AND spanned the entire viewport so you couldn’t swipe to go back, trigger the address bar and toolbar to display, etc. I would have to swipe to minimize the app and then go back to trigger the toolbar to hit the back button.

Yeah I had that too but then it stopped blocking my scroll. I think if you keep your finger on the page after hiding the item you keep control.

But holy moly yes how user hostile.

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