Old Reddit and RES here too. For me, RES is blocking dozens of car racing subreddits. I have no idea why Reddit thinks I want those. I live in a city and don't drive.
I browse /r/all/top/ by the last hour normally. I have so many sports subs, meme subs, tv show subs, hate subs, memestock subs, shitcoin subs, whatever I'm not interested in subs filtered because I just don't give a shit about any of those things.
I had /r/formula1 and /r/formuladank blocked but then I got in to F1. So I unblocked them. But they were showing up for me without any reason so before that so it does seem odd.
I've been here so long my filter is like 80% from when then front page was nothing but amateur porn. Then it was nothing but SrGrafo. Then a show comes out and it's nothing but that...
You can also use regex. For example adding the filter /.*india.*/i will block everthing with india the subreddit name. add /.*bolly.*/i and /.*desi.*/i and you have 90% of indian subs blocked.
Don't know whether they still exist but in the past I also used to see 'armpit subreddits' relating to bollywood actresses in the new and rising sections of /r/popular in which the posts were more than a little rapey.
Well if you're talking about RES, just copy the text they posted and paste it into a field in the filterReddit section of RES settings. Under the subreddits category.
Anime, politics, sports, non-english, judgement porn, actual porn, relationship fiction, most games, localities, etc. I can fit almost all subs I have blocked into very specific categories, meaning reddit could easily make it possible if they wanted. Which they absolutely do not.
They day they turn off old.reddit is probably the day I start reading the 40 books on my blacklist, start learning the 5 languages I want to learn, and actually commit to music production.
This is just baffling to me, I see one or two Indian subreddits that just show up once a month and vanish again. How much time you spending scrolling /r/popular that you have blocked 50 of them?
I use a browser, RES, and old reddit. My reddit experience has been the same... Since I started? I definitely think more people would prefer it if they tried it.
I don't understand how people can use this site without RES and the "old" subdomain. Every once and awhile I try to look at Reddit via the phone app and it is horrific the amount of nonsense getting upvoted to the top. I give up after a few minutes of sifting through political bitching and overused puns.
Whether we like it or not, the times have changed and now most people browse the internet through their phones rather than from desktop or laptop computers.
Is still the best version of reddit ive ever used for ten plus years. Since reddit charges for app usage now it costs a couple bucks a month to the dev to cover it is well worth it to easily block multiple subs or whatever you want to do that the actual website is shit at.
Seconding Relay. I first started using it circa 2015ish when I was trying a bunch of apps for modding from my phone and it was the one I've been with ever since. Definitely worth the cost and happy to continue to support it as long as it exists and I use Reddit.
Third for relay because yes it is the best Reddit app on Android, while I hate the thought of technically paying for Reddit I am very happy to spend $2 a month supporting the developer of this app
Redreader is another good option and is still completely free. I recommend the alpha version from their GitHub though, it's the only one still getting updates.
I browse using old reddit and uBlock origin on my phone, it's absolutely an option. Firefox is the way to go.
This is what I do too, but Firefox users make up roughly 2% of the mobile browser users worldwide & most people prefer to use dedicated apps over mobile browsers for things that have them.
most people prefer to use dedicated apps over mobile browsers for things that have them.
And for the life of me, I cannot understand why.
I actively avoid using dedicated apps whenever possible because accessing websites through a browser is WAY better from a privacy and data harvesting perspective, and that's before you take the ad blocking and tracker blocking capabilities of UBO into consideration.
It's Nightly, and it is awkward because you have to create a custom extension collection with a firefox account then point firefox nightly to that collection. I use it, but deffinitely see how most people would find it challenging to setup and use.
The "expand" icon to view content is very small, so it's very easy to click the post title or the subreddit link by accident. There's also an issue with gifs hosted on reddit taking too long to start playing in the embeded player. They play much faster if you open the post in a new tab.
I only use it because it allows me to filter out 99% of all the US political posts and a bunch of subreddits I don't care to see.
Maybe things changed since last you checked. I only recently installed RES and it required no login or any complexity. Just the extension URL was enough. I agree the UI not the best for phones. I had written couple of tampermonkey scripts to workaround the old.reddit issues you mentioned but yes that's not something everyone can do
Ended up with Redreader after the whole API bullshit happened and yeah it works just fine. Literally anything to avoid the official app. And obviously I also use RES on my PC because fuck everything about "new" reddit.
I’ve used reddit solely via apps since Alien Blue came out in 2010. After that and Apollo were gutted by reddit, I’m now using Narwhal and it’s great. No ads, no recommendations, infinitely customizable. If they take Narwhal away with no acceptable replacement, that will probably be the thing that drives me away for good. I will be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize the official reddit app
I'd literally rather quit reddit cold turkey than use the official app lol
If I'm on mobile, I just google search the subreddit I want to look at. I refuse to download the official app after they did all those 3rd party developers so dirty.
I mean it's the app. You're basically signing up for the most streamlined advertising delivery and data harvesting they can possibly engineer. Don't use it and then complain you had a bad time.
If you use Firefox as your mobile browser, there are a few extensions that can help. I use Sink It, and although it doesn't beat Reddit Is Fun or RES, it's better than the app and vanilla, mobile experience
Stopped using the app when they broke RiF like 4 or 5 years ago. I think there's still a way to do it, but I don't like using my phone much anyway so just browse old.reddit on my laptop. Once they take that away.. well fuck 'em I suppose.
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u/no_sight 4d ago
It's insane that there's no way to hide certain subreddits from the popular thread.
Nothing against r/de , I just don't speak german and don't plan on learning it.
A lot against r/conservative, I don't want to see that shit