Petrarchive – Thread 11269

Scratch that, it only redirects me on a US IP. Americucks absolutely blown the fuck out lmao

On a Euro IP I get the redirect on /new for subreddits. It's coming eventually anyway. Bah

I'm permanently banned from reddit and 4chan AMA

This is being rolled out all over the world
I refuse to login.
There's a reddit viewer called Redlib (github.com/redlib-org/redlib) which is meant to work like Nitter does for Twitter, but I've never tried to use it.
New Reddit is very poorly designed.

>>11274
I figured someone would do a Nitter-type intermediary. Will try it out in the next few days. What a nightmare.

try Chance if you're on mobile: github.com / moffatman / chan (remove spaces)
it's an imageboard browser and it supports reddit and doesn't have ads. you can only view stuff there's no way to log in but it's better than going on reddit's official app.

>>11287
Never used this, but unless Chance is a proxy for Reddit somehow I doubt it'll work properly in regions where Old Reddit is blocked. I bet (again, I've not looked at it) that it works by interpreting the HTML of websites, but New Reddit doesn't use proper HTML, but some execrable Javashit PWA.

>>11269 (OP)
>newredditcuck
Lmao.

>>11288
it works by scraping reddit’s content as json and then converting that to ui elements instead of interpreting the html. it doesn’t use old or new reddit as a proxy, so unless reddit removes their json endpoint then it should work.

>>11273
I'd hate to help you return to 4chan but do you not know you can change your IP address?
You can't actually get banned from 4chan

I use RedReader off fdroid for reddit. I think its the only 3rd party client that's still used due to accessibility reasons or something.

>>11287
>>11356

Thanks for the recs. I am a desktop user though. For now I've avoided getting the redirect by using a European IP (residential, haven't done any testing with VPNs). I don't know why reddit would bother halfway rolling out this change if their stated reason about combating spam and bots were the case, as Eastern Europe has no shortage of that sort of activity, but whatever.

>>11275
There's a Firefox extension called LibRedirect that'll point all Reddit links to Redlib. Also works for X/Xcanceled.

Nitter received a C&D. Gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Update on the Situation: the old reddit redirect firefox extension now allows you to access old reddit without an account

>>11799
There's always xcancel

Thanks posters, you are doing God's work.

>>11802
The hoster of XCancel has also received a cease-and-desist from X.

>>11805
See: x.com/CryptoCyberia/status/2092235037630480820

None of the nitter instances listed in the github wiki are working.

Some show the search page but either stall or say the instance is out of tokens when you try to use them.

It's over

I am working on an algorithmic feed blocker that lets you view tweets without having to look at the for you tab

>>11801

Update: appears to be broken again, the corpocucks have struck back :(

Nah it's ultra over because Nitter et al rely on API keys which can be revoked. That's why they couldn't catch yt-dlp since Youtube doesn't ask for API keys to access it. I won't be surprised in the future if YT moves to a tiered model where some videos are locked behind API creds. Obviously it won't be the whole site, at least not any time soon, because it's too big and already quasi-public infrastructure.

Hate hate hate this internet

>>11817
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitter
>Nitter relied on a glitch that allowed creating a large amount of "guest accounts" using proxy servers in order to fetch content. It now relies [read: relied] on using registered account tokens to access the site, as Twitter has removed the ability to create guest accounts, and heavily restricts access to logged-out users.
Seems to me that what caused Nitter, XCancel, et al. to shut down were the cease-and-desist letters, not a technical reason. X can and did revoke API keys without much trouble, but Nitter used fake accounts which scraped GraphQL/JSON endpoints from the browser and converted them to display on the Nitter HTML interface. This made it hard to detect, if you had a sufficient number of fake accounts.
Probably, X's legal threats are without basis and in any event not enforceable in Europe. Since Nitter had the support of the NLnet Foundation, Nitter could well come back after consulting with lawyers.
>>11817
Well, you already can make videos private, but then the videos are private.
Probably, there is no way to stop services like yt-dlp, although I've wondered if WebAssembly in browsers will cause YouTube to eventually build little browsers-within-your-browser as a kind of strong form of DRM. Imagine that every time you want to watch a YouTube video, you have to spin up a virtual machine.

The fact X Corp resorted to legal threats rather than technical countermeasures is probably a positive sign, in that it meant that X probably can't tell apart Nitter traffic from real traffic if proxy routing and account token management are used properly. None of the information about how to do this was ever in the official Nitter repo, but it's not hard to work out how to do it. So it actually proves that Nitter can't be defeated on a technical level.

This is the reason they want to push you toward apps, by the way, anything with a web browser presence can be potentially Nitter'd because the information has to actually be displayed somehow to the user, and that can just be redirected. Maybe, in 10 or so years, everything will just be on apps, and the apps have certificate pinning so you can't MITM your own connection!

They just killed twitterwebviewer too lmao

Probably, the reason all the Nitter instances went down at the same time is because the Nitter developer, Zed, was the maintainer of a service which produced "guest accounts" for other Nitter instances to use. This meant those instances didn't need to use proxy IPs. Once somebody spools up such a service again, Nitter could come back.

There are still some Nitter instances which work.

Excuse me???

I capitulated and made an account just to access the fucking old.reddit.com site. Then they give me this shit like I'm running a bot farm. To "verify" it asks for some biometric crap which I obviously wouldn't provide even if I wanted to get the Linux drivers working. Then a few hours later it just permanently suspends my account. I wouldn't care except for the fact that when you're banned you CAN'T SEE OLD.REDDIT.COM! Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>12024
Just download the old Reddit redirector extension for Chrome or Firefox. >>11801

Looks like nitter et al got some legal help and decided to not comply with the c&d letters after all. Everything is back up

>>12047
Basado