Tried using old reddit to browse all. Been doing it for years and years.
I guess fuck me, right. I dont even have an account and have no plans to make one.
Edit: oddly enough its letting me through now. Not sure exactly what’s flagging me but reddit has been fucky for months on my end.
Whats the likelihood of a man in the middle attack?
Yep. At this point, since you can’t read the site without logging in, everything in it should be deindexed by Google
Google had a special deal to scrape Reddit’s data right? That might carve out some special exceptions.
BTW, hello. I tried the fediverse out around 2022 through kbin (which seems to be dead?) then drifted off. Haven’t had a reddit account since 2023 (and my mains were deleted around 2020), but I swore I’d force myself off Reddit when old.reddit. I guess that time is now.
Mbin is the successor to Kbin. Piefed exists, gets a bit more features but there seems to be some frustration I’m not very familiar with and won’t comment on. Lemmy so far has been rock solid. All of these communicate together.
I quit Reddit cold turkey when they killed the API and it’s still one of the biggest changes in my adult life and frankly I still miss the sheer variety and volume. But this is alright too.
I havent touched google for what seems like years.
Which is depressing because the sites popularity was based on easy straight forward searching. That got so lost along the way.
Been trying to get away from google for a long while too, but DuckDuckGo feels like its been degrading significantly lately. I could give examples, but dont want to type and novel atm.
Is there any better privacy respecting search alternative out there besides DDG?
I’m finding that Ecosia works better than Google for many things.
if you can afford a paid option, I’ve heard good things about Kagi. It basically uses several backends (including google) but cuts out the ad junk. And it reportedly tends to give you better results, or at least less sponsored crap.
It’s something I wanted to try out more once I can get a dang job.
I agree, but you can still browse new reddit without logging in, mostly. Also Google still lists Twitter which also requires a login, so they were never going deindex it anyway.