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Using the old Reddit site as the default: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/8f2n7d/how_do_i_perma...

I don't have a reddit account and I have no interest in creating one.

I don't know if things have changed, but preferences settings weren't enough, reddit would randomly switch to the new theme. After that I changed all my bookmarks to old reddit.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

> Not available on Firefox for Android. You can use this add-on with Firefox for Desktop. Learn more about add-ons for Android.

You can use a browser extension to always load old reddit.

Unless you're on mobile

Unless you’re on Firefox? Edit: nvm, on GNU/Linux mobile you can use FF or Chromium (or GNOME Web or lynx or netsurf or…)

Not on the whitelist of extensions for the current Firefox version. You'll need to build your own.

Yep. The most infuriating part of their sudden disabling of existing extensions and preventing users from installing non-whitelisted ones on mobile FF is that if extensions like uBlock Origin and NoScript will work you know that a simple redirector extension would too.

<strikethrough> “Simple redirector extension” sounds like a good generic tool that should exist to sed urls in a similar way to how ublockO & AdNauseum can block more than one type of content based on simple rules. One extension could use one rule to use the old version of Reddit, another to replace YouTube with Invidious, Twitter with Nitter… oh wait! </strikethrough>

I knew https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... could do the last two plus something for Instagram, searched https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nitter+invidious+instagram and lo and behold, https://www.oldd.it/r/privacy/comments/hpy82f/redirect_twitt....

I’d be surprised if HTTPS Everywhere wasn’t whitelisted. And if it isn’t, TIL you can use it to fix Reddit.

Oddly, while Firefox nightly did disable my extensions after the update, Firefox stable has continued to leave them enabled. They're not working perfectly, but they're all enabled. xStyle, tampermonkey, etc are all working for me. The only problem is that they're now impossible to disable, because that entire UI no longer exists (I've got some extensions that do unconditional page modification, which I had to uninstall completely)

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