If you ever have to visit reddit, remember to use an adblocker, don't give the bastards a cent.

https://lemmy.world/post/937654

If you ever have to visit reddit, remember to use an adblocker, don't give the bastards a cent. - Lemmy.world

Ublock Origin rocks! Also, hello federatii.

There’s an extension for firefox called just ‘‘libreddit’’. Don’t know how well it works though.
or better use a libreddit instance to not give them clicks, here is one libreddit instance
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View on Libreddit, an alternative private front-end to Reddit.

Interesting. Even with the API stuff recently this site is still up?
Boost and infinity are still working for me, but the site feels emptier.
might not be for long although they are discussing alternative methods (rss, scraping etc)
Reddit's API changes · Issue #785 · libreddit/libreddit

Yesterday Reddit announced changes to it's API. It includes a paid option for third parties who require additional capabilities, higher usage limits, and broader usage rights. Further it limits acc...

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Even better, didn’t know that thing existed. Bookmarking it, thanks!

there is an extension that automatically redirects more sites to a more private front end called libredirect, it might be useful

for furry browser and chromium (it is a bit more convoluted)

LibRedirect - Privacy-friendly Redirector

A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc. requests to alternative privacy-friendly frontends

libredirect.github.io
This is awesome, thanks! Too bad it doesn't seem to work for Firefox on android though I'll be sure to use this on desktop.
Or you can use teddit for that too
frontpage : teddit

Teddit is a free and open source alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy. Teddit doesn't require you to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

teddit

Set up a pihole and let the much faster internet and browsing good times roll. (along with browser extension()

Bonus trauma points: one week after setup, go look at the pihole logs of everything that it’s blocking–and from where. Welcome to random bouts of low-grade paranoia and feeling a little bit stalked.