I don’t know how long or well it’ll work, but so far I was able to evade the initial “no URL shortener” Reddit filtering with it.
But for reasons I ended up paying for a month of a Pro plan on a URL shortening service to only find out I didn’t need to for what I needed, so now I’ve got a limit of like 1k links on a custom domain LMAO
So if it’ll help, DM me a comm you want a “cloaked” link to to spread around on Reddit and I’ll send you a link on a custom fresh domain you can throw around
you could probably also just open that on a private tab right?
I don’t really get why this solution isn’t used much or even suggested. I mean fetching the data without an account is a foolproof way to detect shadowbanning and silent removals. Frankly I’m surprised no one has simply made an extension or tool to do it automatically.
CC: @misk@sopuli.xyz @ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net
I assume those who were interested enough could whip out a script to do that easily until Reddit disabled API which is the moment I lost interest in the platform. I don’t know how people do it these days without getting accounts suspended for automated traffic but it’s something you have to consider and probably the reasons why such tools are not available widely.
Reddit makes browsing without account harder and harder. I assume the end goal is a walled unindexable garden like Facebook or Discord.