At least with Boost (my favorite reddit & Lemmy app).
This lets you circumvent ads/recommendations and other bs, too.
My Boost has been throwing
403 Blockedfor like a week now… My Reddit usage has significantly dropped.https://github.com/wchill/revanced-patches
A guide on fixing that.
Oh boy I’ve always wanted to still use a site full of bots that doesn’t respect its users and censors the shit out of everything!
While you didn’t post the rule-breaking content, not buying a Tesla is also considered a violation.
But then you would be using reddit… gross.
Boost adds ads of its own.
At least spez doesn’t profit from those
How do you figure that?
They run ads and subscriptions to afford the API, which is paid to spez.
This is just incorrect. Nobody pays for API in Boost, it uses the API directly. The official app was shut down after the API got restricted.
“after the API was restricted”
The restriction is 3rd party apps have to pay for API.
Here’s the reddit post from Boost’s developer. https://www.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/13wstr2/with_apollo_facing_api_prices_upwards_of_20/
There are hacks that keep Boost working but the ads are Reddits.
Yes, I’m aware. It uses the API. There are no ads.
You don’t even need to patch the Android app called Red Reader. It works by default. Not super pleasing to look at, but it has always done the job. I think they managed to squeak by the API shutdown thing because they are headed toward blind users, but sighted users can use it too.
Yeah Red Reader got a special exemption as an accessibility oriented app. I use it for whenever I need to check Reddit for something (typically football/soccer news). It’s ugly as sin which is good because it makes me less inclined to stick around as long.
Yes, reddit started blacklisting specific user-agents. Many of the other apps worked fine until Monday for me.
I deleted my Reddit account after a decade a couple of months ago but I used Boost the whole time I was on the site, even after they supposedly put the kibosh on third party apps. The only issue was that if I wanted to post anything that had an attachment I had to use the official Reddit app or website.
infinity patched with revanced still works great too
There was also a way to build Infinity yourself using your own developer key from Reddit, not sure if that’s still an option though. But that dev was very quick with a work around and Infinity users are barely affected by the API thing.
Reminder: nobody gives a shit about reddit
This is a reddit community…
This is a community about reddit discussion/news. Most posts are about how they censor, monetize and essentially wage war with their communities #luigi. I don’t need “reminders” to go back.
They circumvent reddit ads by paying reddit directly for the API (using their own ads). It still funds reddit.
Their username also checks out
