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Comment by wktmeow | Hacker News Reader

I refuse to log in to Reddit, deleted my account ages ago. And now on mobile it places an unclosable pop-over asking me to log in to continue reading. So now I only read things on desktop. Would like to stop using Reddit all together but sometimes it is genuinely useful to read some human answers, although since LLM’s train on the data I can get a lot of the same info that way at least.

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You can block the overlay using uBlock Origin in Firefox Mobile (at least on Android).

  www.reddit.com##div#configured-xpromo-mweb3x_mid_funnel_blocking_v1_30s.configured-xpromo-bottom-sheet.configured-xpromo.rpl-bottom-sheet

The selector is probably not as concise as it could be.

Isn't that just for the mobile app popup ? Seems to work ish but then I can't click anything (scroll is fine). No affect for old reddit

You can easily selfhost a redlib instance and keep reading. I stopped logging in to reddit a year or two ago, but there's still a couple niche communities that are worth it for me to read. Meanwhile, I'm back to a half dozen internet forums as my daily check-ins for real questions or human connection.

I could be wrong, but it may be more of an age demographics issue, really. People too young to default to internet forums as where they would go now that reddit sucks (many of whom call reddit "an app" and only know it as the post-API single platform on mobile) just started showing up from FB or IG or Tik Tok only because reddit had a certain amount of huge critical mass.

I wanted to stop going to Reddit because I just used it to look at stupid memes. So, blocking old Reddit for logged out users was a nice favor to me.

There are solutions to this, like libreddit/redlib.

https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

I would really just like to stop receiving bot spam because they allow arbitrary uses to "sign in" with your email without any validation.

To which you then receive login codes via email and recommendations to Russian subreddits

Try "RedReader". You can use reddit without the account.

Android only ?

Probably not for long. If the site requires an account, so will the accessibility app

Use incognito mode. The banner doesn't pop up with it.

Request desktop site on mobile

>I refuse to log in to Reddit,

You are so brave, an true hero.

old.reddit.com works to bypass that on mobile.

The article is literally about how they’re killing old.reddit.com unless you login.

There’s an article? All these years…

but is the article on reddit about old.reddit.com being killed so they can track your porn viewing after you have to log in.

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