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Alternatively, you can configure Kagi to rewrite Reddit links to point to an alternative front-end via https://kagi.com/settings/redirects

  ^https://(www\.)?reddit.com|https://safereddit.com
EDIT: See here for a list of instances: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib#instances
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LibRedirect is useful for this (and other sites) too if you want it to apply over the whole browser.

Friends send me links to reddit and stuff so it's handy to have an automatic redirect.

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I wish they put more effort into Kagi news. Feels very barebones but has a lot of potential.
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What do you feel is missing for a free news offering?

I don’t personally like it all that much, because it feels like it’s missing the depth I like in well-written reporting, but for those who just want a quick overview of topics once a day, it seems to work pretty well, no?

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There are some defects like what does this mean?

> dir="auto" rather than inheriting the story's direction: quotes are reproduced verbatim, so a Hebrew story routinely carries an English one. Inheriting rtl left its closing punctuation stranded at the start of the line (KNEWS-453). -->

https://news.kagi.com/s/3gskhn

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Okay, strange, but that’s a bug, not a web app “feeling barebones” wrt. core functionality for most users, at least IMO.

Has that been reported on kagifeedback.org yet?

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> Reddit has recently blocked access to old reddit without an account

I don't understand why this is a barrier considering their accounts aren't invasive at all since you can use a temporary email account to sign up, and then you never have to do anything via email after that.

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Me too. The longer I use it, the more I like it. Initially I found myself going back to google fairly often, but unless I'm specifically trying to find a product for sale in my region, Kagi is almost always better now. Maybe Kagi got better, or google got worse, or probably both.
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I can still access old.reddit.com from my country/region
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It is just people without accounts who are being blocked, and maybe it is regional?
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If I could wave a magic wand, I would implement this like some kind of token replenishment or quota system like every IP address gets to access old dot like a very low number and if you log in with the same IP address you get more quota or replenished a little faster if you also come in with no auth like from a private window. Of course, in an ideal world we wouldn't have to do anything like this but yes, regional is likely as well.

I know I worked with some programmers in India and apparently some ISP will do some kind of trickery so like a lot of customers share the same ipv4 address. So what I said above might not actually make sense in the real world.

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Is that trickery NAT, network address translation? It is a pretty widespread technique I think, we’d have run out of ipv4 addresses a while ago without it.
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> Reddit has recently blocked access to old reddit without an account

Old Reddit still works just fine without an account.

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Are you sure? If I visit https://old.reddit.com/r/haskell/ in private mode (i.e. without my auth cookies) then I am asked to log in.
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I guess they are A/B testing this “feature”.
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Yeah, that loads right up for me.
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Wellp, not for me... Shame, reddit has/had really good answers to a variety of problems that I've had over the years. Not sure if there's a replacement for it, or if there will ever be another.
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They are just trying to close the loophole from the scrapers.

They are selling content to google et al for their LLMs and they don't want to give it away for free.

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You can still add .json to any thread and get the full comments in a single object. The anti scraping features must be a rate limiting thing, because it’s very machine readable otherwise. They just want to push people to be logged in and use the app.
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Not for me - both at work and home. I need to be logged in.
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Doesn't work for me
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Maybe for you.

I get a nice

> Log in to use old Reddit

> To keep Reddit safe, accounts are required to access old Reddit. Log in, or continue without an account on reddit.com.

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You in the UK?
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I get the same, seemingly randomly, from US.

No more, since I installed the "always old reddit" plugin in firefox.

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No, but I am not in the US
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Not working for me either without an account anymore. Seems like a very recent change.
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I had to login the other day to use it. Probably getting slowly rolled out.
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> Old Reddit still works just fine without an account.

It works sometimes, it's been inconsistent lately. I assume they're rolling out the blocks incrementally or something, because sometimes I can get through to it in a private window and other times I can't.

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it works just fine for you, but not everyone.
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Not for long, sadly.
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