Pro-tip: use a libreddit mirror when linking to a Reddit thread

https://lemmy.world/post/280339

Pro-tip: use a libreddit mirror when linking to a Reddit thread - Lemmy.world

Use a libreddit mirror like https://reddit.adminforge.de [https://reddit.adminforge.de] to link to Reddit threads so that Reddit gets 0 traffic and 0 ad revenue from us opening the thread. For example, if the Reddit link is: https://old.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/14clza9/i_present_to_you_john_blobiver/ [https://old.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/14clza9/i_present_to_you_john_blobiver/] Then you simply have to replace old.reddit.com [http://old.reddit.com] by reddit.adminforge.de [http://reddit.adminforge.de] so that the link becomes: https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/aww/comments/14clza9/i_present_to_you_john_blobiver/ [https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/aww/comments/14clza9/i_present_to_you_john_blobiver/]

But then isn't adminforge requesting that content in some way from Reddit which is at least a boost to their stats?

I don't know anything about this particular site, but typically these kinda sites operate on a cached version that is requested just once. So reddit would get a single view no matter how many views your link gets.

For sites like Google's cache or archive.org, they often were gonna cache the site no matter what.

undefined> these kinda sites operate on a cached version that is requested just once.

the link in this post (which is 2h old) has comments, some of them younger than 30 minutes, so no, i don't think so...

Technically, Reddit gets one traffic.