this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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Use a libreddit mirror like https://reddit.adminforge.de to link to Reddit threads so that Reddit gets 0 traffic and 0 ad revenue from us opening the thread.

For example, if the Reddit link is:

https://old.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/14clza9/i_present_to_you_john_blobiver/

Then you simply have to replace old.reddit.com by reddit.adminforge.de so that the link becomes:

https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/aww/comments/14clza9/i_present_to_you_john_blobiver/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Will that website be killed by the api changes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But then isn't adminforge requesting that content in some way from Reddit which is at least a boost to their stats?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If by stats you mean how many times something is read, that's not really relevant since the content is being served by the mirror without Reddit's ads or trackers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know anything about this particular site, but typically these kinda sites operate on a cached version that is requested just once. So reddit would get a single view no matter how many views your link gets.

For sites like Google's cache or archive.org, they often were gonna cache the site no matter what.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

these kinda sites operate on a cached version that is requested just once.

the link in this post (which is 2h old) has comments, newest i found just 35 minutes old, so it at least do some refreshes.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is good to know and could be something I'd use a lot, but it isn't working. Every Reddit address I try it on, the reply is "Nothing here. Head back home?"

Does the page need to be pre-prepared, like a web.archive.org address?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You could try another instance. Here's a list for you https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit-instances/blob/master/instances.md

Or you could get this add-on and have it do it for you https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension