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Re:Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra by jvanderbot on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:34AM (#20223712)
Tangential:

Is there an easy way to map all links of form www.reddit.com/* to old.reddit.com/* on all my devices? (I assume /etc/hosts would work for linux?)

Re:Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra by est31 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:39AM (#20223767)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

In order to redirect it on all your devices, install Firefox. It can install extensions on Android, too. Should solve it for everything except smart TVs (Firefox for Amazon TV can't install extensions) and iOS.

Re:Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra by jvanderbot on Friday June 21, 2019 @01:58PM (#20244866)
Well that's perfect. Thank you.
Re:Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra by cesarb on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:12AM (#20224065)
> (I assume /etc/hosts would work for linux?)

No, because both www.reddit.com and old.reddit.com (in fact, *.reddit.com) already map to the same IP address. They are distinguished through the Host HTTP header. The only way to do that mapping would be within the browser (or with a MITM proxy, which I wouldn't recommend).

Re:Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra by jvanderbot on Friday June 21, 2019 @01:58PM (#20244859)
Thank you
Re:Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra by modeless on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:39AM (#20223763)
Log in. Then you can set a preference to always show old Reddit.
Re:Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra by thih9 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @12:33PM (#20224782)
When possible, I try not to log in. I dislike targeted content or targeted ads, I hope clearing cookies helps with avoiding it.
Re:Facebook picked Rust to implement Libra by rkalfane on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:43AM (#20223809)
Yes, you could write a proxy auto-config file[1], host it somewhere and have it rewrite the urls you want.

I think that's how an ad-blocker worked on iOS before they enabled the functionality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_auto-config