This is the main reason I completely ditched Reddit, if you use the new Reddit interface instead of the old one (old.reddit.com), you’ll see a constant request being made to “https://www.reddit.com/svc/shreddit/events” (open your DevTools > Network tab, can’t see on Firefox idk why).
The problem is, if you add this to your Ublock Origin filters the website won’t load properly, that’s why uBO team didn’t block it already.
You’ll notice this request isn’t only being made from a interval but also when you do basically any action in the site, like pausing or resuming a video (send timestamps of when did you pause or resumed).
It sends other kind of data like what subjects you’re seeing when closed a tab or the related subjects of a post you click, this all can be used to trace a perfect profile of you and things you like.
You can avoid that by using the old.reddit but it still has the same kind of tracker, even tho you can block it here without major issues.
By my analysis, old Reddit interface does the same but to a random URL path that always starts with “reddit.com/api/something”. Ex.: reddit.com/api/friends So you can block anything that starts with “www.reddit.com/api” in your custom filters (after all you’re using old.reddit.com), then you’re mostly free from Reddit trackers (more or less). Side effect is, you won’t be able to use the chat in the old interface.
I still don’t get why people didn’t leave Chrome and Chromium browsers en masse when they did this.
Users are so fucking dumb at this point… Like, do they not want any power or ownership? This shit is so easy to fight against, yet they just sleep on it.
For me personally, it’s about a cost vs benefit tradeoff. The benefits of staying with Edge outweight the cost of doing so, especially considering my adblocker hasn’t gotten noticeably worse.
Firefox has always run like ass for me (worse performance and more resources used), and is missing a lot of features I’ve come to love from Edge.
The move from Chromium sends a bad message, but considering my adblocker still works as well as ever, and Edge still does not have a date for when it drops MV2 support (though it’s deprecated), the cost of switching is far heavier than the benefit right now for me.
What if there is no alternative when it drops MV2 support because chrome/chromium worked good enough for people, so the alternatives couldn’t justify funding?
Also, weird that Firefox find like ass. I hear this a lot but I’ve never had problems with it since I switched back. I used chrome primarily for about a decade from 2013 until 2023 or so.
I get you. But it’s the same with WhatsApp and windows and … They won’t leave comfort zone, which I can understand but the argumentation drives me crazy sometimes. I fucking despise the ads /- industry today, so that’s a no brainer for me, but people don’t seem to mind seeing the same slop again and again.