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Reddit to old.Reddit as a feature is enough to make me look into this as a replacement search engine. My search experience for specific information that’s kept on subreddits has been hell since they introduced new Reddit.

If it can automate for me navigating to Reddit, then modifying the url to old.Reddit, and hopefully not accidentally clicking on the page and needing to reverse back or get redirected based on the content, then that’s probably worth 10 dollars a month already

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There are also browser extensions which can do that redirect, but of course the story of browser extensions on mobile OSes is quite sad, and I'm sure Reddit will get rid of the old UI of these days anyway

You can also make an empty reddit account and switch to old reddit style in settings.

>the story of browser extensions...

In general is that you can't ever trust them apart from a few very large ones.

A redirect extension is ripe for the usual blackmarket shenanigans.

They’re simple enough that you can fork an open source extension and review the source with relative ease, freezing it.

I have my own omni extension made up of copy pasted open source extensions. I normally wouldn’t go through the effort but web browsing is crucial and frequent enough to be worth it and it took less than a weekend to get it up and running, especially with Plasmo. It’s also another reason to prefer Firefox and MV2

Who's got time for to review every open source project they use, thousands of lines of code though?

This is a fair call and something I should really do with the small enough ones.

It's the auto-update behaviour of browsers that should probably be criticised here, rather than having general distrust of all extension authors.

Yup, that's basically it, I rarely even see new Reddit anymore. I know there are browser extensions that do the same thing, I think I even have one installed on my main Firefox profile, but it's handy for your search engine to just do it.

But it's not just reddit, you can do like a custom regex replace on any domain IIRC.

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