As I suspect many of you have also found, avoiding Reddit is easier in theory than in practice due to the longstanding reciprocal nature of:
- Google Search results being useless without Reddit
- Searching Reddit being useless without Google
It seems unfair that Reddit Inc. the Profit-Driven Company should be able to hold hostage the content created by Reddit the Community of Users. The good news is that there are scripts and extensions available to redirect those Google links to Reddit alternative front ends such as teddit & libreddit.
Right now, these use the official API. After the API changes go live, I suspect the big brains of the internet will come up with an alternative, something along the lines of how Nitter has been able to pull Twitter data via unofficial APIs.
Chrome:
Teddit Please
Privacy Redirect
Firefox:
Tampermonkey scripts:
Unofficial APIs sound really good. Read only is enough for learning new stuff. Thanks.
I’m wondering if you will be able to ask ChatGPT to search reddit for answers instead of doing it directly. Does it use official APIs to scrape information across the web?
