At least with Boost (my favorite reddit & Lemmy app).

This lets you circumvent ads/recommendations and other bs, too.

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    My Boost has been throwing 403 Blocked for like a week now… My Reddit usage has significantly dropped.

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    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!

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    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.

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      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.

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      Yes, reddit started blacklisting specific user-agents. Many of the other apps worked fine until Monday for me.

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    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.

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        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.