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Re:Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting by fossuser on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @08:02PM (#23775625)
On mobile it reverts you every few days whether you want it to or not and you have to set it again.

There are a few extensions around for each browser that fix this, but every time it happens it makes me angry at whatever person thought this was a good idea.

If they rely on metrics for old vs. new this 'feature' obviously distorts the reality.

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Re:Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting by paranoidrobot on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @08:21PM (#23775747)
Strange, mine doesn't revert that frequently. I think over a month since the last time.
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Re:Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting by phreack on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:13PM (#23776047)
I think they do experiments, I used to get reverted daily, and so changed all my bookmarks to old.*. And at some point, they removed that behavior, and now remembers my prefs. The day they stop supporting old, I'm out of reddit.
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Re:Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting by AlexCoventry on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:51PM (#23776217)
I use the boost client on mobile. It's quite nice.
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