The greatest thing about Reddit is finding information on any old topic. For today, I wanted to dig deeper into My Dinner With Andre. RIF tried to open (he’s such a trooper 😢) and when that failed I went to the browser.

I really want nothing to do with supporting that site, but I do want to read these old discussions. Any advice?

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    uBlock Origin and uBlock extension combined give really good ad blocking alone. Combine it with a DNS solution in your router like AdGuard and you won’t have to deal with ads at all.

    Simultaneously gives the middle finger to reddit because they live on ads.

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        True, but they’re going to take whatever numbers they can use to plug the IPO. So even just visiting the site lets them claim traffic hasn’t fallen much.

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    Use Browser extensions to block all ads and trackers, don’t log in to your account. As an anonymous IP visiting the site you’re almost useless for them because you give them almost no data to sell to advertisers.

    Works best with Firefox and uBlockOrigin and some tracker blockers like Privacy Badger. Also works on mobile since Firefox on mobile also supports extensions, however, the Reddit mobile experience is trash, whether you are in a browser or use their shitty app.

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      Then can still get some information off your IP address like geolocation for example

      You could use a VPN for that

      Also change your browser user agent with user agent switcher to something useless to them

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    When you get to a Reddit thread via Google or other search engines you can request a cached version of it.

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    You can use the Web Archive, if those posts are saved, you’ll see it without ever touching a reddit server. You can’t comment or give awards or anything, but you’re not locked out completely.

    Or you can use a 3rd party app. The team behind Youtube Revanced have patched most of the major (Android) ones to still function afterwards. https://web.archive.org/web/20230705025421/https://www.reddit.com/r/AfterVanced/comments/14m3wgo/reddit_apps_for_which_patches_andor_patched/

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    RiF is still working for me, but I can’t log in. Just a couple of taps to check out my old subs. The pain of it reminds me to keep a distance.

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    http://mlmym.org/ mimics old Reddit and just pulls through any Lemmy instance you’re using, so you don’t have to change anything you’re already doing and it feels like home. if you like it, please spread it, I only found it because somebody mentioned it.

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      I’m really new to all this. It’s asking for a domain and when I put Reddit, it pops an error. How does it work…?

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        I pretty sure it just makes lemmy look like reddit, which isn’t what OP is asking for.

        It’s asking for a lemmy domain to pull into an old reddit like ui.

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        That link is only for Lemmy instances (e.g., Lemmy.world, Beehaw.org). I entered “Beehaw.org” into the field and it worked fine.

        I think the previous poster thought the OP wanted a Lemmy instance but to have it look just like Old Reddit (which this does). If you want Reddit content without going to Reddit, maybe Libreddit works (I think that’s the name of the site). Tedd.it i believe will.shut down on August 1, but you can try them.for now.

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      Bummer - doesn’t work for kbin… might be something as simple as the change from /c/ in community urls on lemmy to the /m/ magazine urls on kbin. Any chance they have a github or a contributor page to report a bug? Not seeing any on the initial interface.

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    A lot of people edited and deleted old posts before vacating Reddit. Even if what you want were possible, the posts might no longer be there.

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    Louis Malle is a boss, just thought I’d start with that.

    But what did you even want that you could t get on IMDb or Wikipedia? There are plenty of places besides Reddit to chat about film

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      Are there? IMDb killed its boards like 10 years ago. I am unaware of other large scale movie discussion boards, Reddit has really taken that spot for me.

      Whenever I finished a tv series it was nice closure to go through its subreddit and see all the takes, things I missed, etc. Old style media or just marter-of-factly summarizing the plot just doesn’t go as far.

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        Exactly what usually do as soon as I’m caught up. See the theories and missed connections for TV and book series.

        I hope this will eventually also kick off here. For tech news, memes and doomscrolling lemmy is already full enough for my taste, but the casual users deep in fandoms have not arrived, yet, at least not in scale.

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          I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movies or TV community in my “all” scrolling. Lots of old memes tho.

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                Thanks, bot, but I personally have had better luck putting the full URL in my instance’s search bar. The version starting in “!” comes up when someone on my instance is already subscribed to the community, but sometimes not if I’m the first one interested. But I will edit with the other version as well.

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        Moviechat.org exists as the perfect substitute for the IMDb boards, it even has the old IMDb threads for all movies, series, etc. Check it out!

        The boards were killed in 2017, so nowhere near 10 years ago, but it indeed feels longer.

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    If you visit the site with an adblocker, I don’t see what revenue they would get.

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      None, but they do get a +1 on page views and other use metrics. It’s not a big deal, but it’s more than nothing.

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    I don’t think that there is anyway to do that, since the apis are closed. If you use some scraper, then it would still generate revenue for them.