You literally can’t. Reddit has cut off API access unless you pay an exorbitant amount, so even if you still have Apollo installed it won’t connect to Reddit.
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I am, it works perfectly with no ads.
I absolutely hate reddit as a company, but there's too much valuable info hosted there to abandon it completely and there's still no viable alternative. Any time I'm searching for very specific info or how-tos, I get no relevant results unless I include reddit in my search terms. Maybe in a few years Lemmy can become as useful, but right now it seems to be mostly memes and politics.
Reddit will screw up just like Youtube did with their 'targeted ads', gambling and alcohol ad's appearing on video's targeted at children, alcohol ad's appearing on videos in countries where alcohol is forbidden (religious countries).
I can just see it now, Barbie 2 movie comes out, loads of young teens go on reddit to talk about the movie and ad's for alcohol appear and ads for pregnancy advice and all reddit will do is do what youtube did, say they are sorry and that they will change how their AI works. This never worked for youtube because they still allowed it to happen and things only changed when advertisers started to cancel contracts with youtube. Reddit will go exactly the same way.
I can just see it now, Barbie 2 movie comes out, loads of young teens go on reddit to talk about the movie and ad's for alcohol appear and ads for pregnancy advice and all reddit will do is do what youtube did, say they are sorry and that they will change how their AI works. This never worked for youtube because they still allowed it to happen and things only changed when advertisers started to cancel contracts with youtube. Reddit will go exactly the same way.
You may have to pay for it to use this (I don't fully remember) but if you do you can get decent discounts on lifetime accounts (i.e. one-time purchase) at StackSocial (https://www.stacksocial.com/search?utf8=✓&query=adguard). I got the family one and it covers all my and my wife's devices. No complaints.
It’s just me so I’d probably just go with their $4.99/year subscription. Or if I like it, $12.99 lifetime.
Thanks for sharing this!
This isn't about paying bills.
Reddit is trying to maximize it's numbers as it prepares to go public in the coming months, and they will squeeze out every last dollar of valuation they can
This sort of thing is to be increasingly expected on the modern web. And while I find it problematic from a privacy POV, Reddit is free to use and most of the time when an online service is free one should remember that it’s only ’free’ in the sense that it doesn’t cost money but privacy. It’s generally how most of the modern web operates - including this very site. It’s either that or subscription fees. So just use an ad blocker or stop using the site.
One has no innate right to expect a free service without caveats as these businesses are not charities, egregious and unnecessarily intrusive data collecting or not.
One has no innate right to expect a free service without caveats as these businesses are not charities, egregious and unnecessarily intrusive data collecting or not.
^This^
It is why I rarely use YT anymore. I get a curiousity about how something works or some DIY subject and then I get slammed with recommended videos on that topic to where I have to edit my library to remove them from my watch history. Subscriptions be damned. If I subscribe, then I want that channel/topic. So show me related. But watching one video on (how to diagnose a knock sensor on my truck) and then my home page fills with related videos.
Based on this story/thread, I decided to join Lemmy and will be shutting down my primary and throw-aways from Reddit.
But why allow bots that detect you have visited or commented in one of those ‘other’ subs that your sub hates and then ban your account? I have literally “LOL’d” a comment with a funny meme in a sub that got me banned from several others.
Yep… for the most part, if a service on the internet is free, you are the product.
Which makes me wonder… what are they doing as an adblocker that they wouldn’t be able to release it for Safari? Some evening googling for me I guess
The same reason many plugins aren't on Safari: Apple. Safari Plugins have to go through app review, and a lot of plugin developers don't like that especially with how much Apple limits what they can do. It's why plugin support for Safari is garbage compared to Firefox and Chrome.
UBlock Origin is FOSS (free open source software,) not made for profit, so because of Apple forcing a charge for listing on the App Store among their other strict app review policies, they would rather not deal with that and just stick with Firefox and Chrome, and the Google Play Store.
So until sideloading comes to iOS, no UBlock Origin for our iPhones. The closest we got to UBlock on iOS is running the plugin through Orion Browser, however Orion still hasn't reached 1.0 and there's other issues that need to get resolved before I can even recommend doing that.
Federation takes place between Lemmy (technically ActivityPub, think Mastodon) servers and allows a user to have a "home base" but can access the content on connected (federated) servers. For an example like Lemmy server A could be hosting a community on Apple products and all users of server A can access this content. Server B allows connections to server A and then the content in the Apple community is available to all users on server B once someone subscribes to it.
Technical documentation here if you're curious about some of the deeper details.
Sideload Apollo using Sideloadly.
I was kinda hoping Craig would just say "I am gonna pay Apollo's yearly API calls with my salary." And then smile that sexy smile.
I was kinda hoping Craig would just say "I am gonna pay Apollo's yearly API calls with my salary." And then smile that sexy smile.
