Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting

Re:Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting by retsibsi on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:03PM (#23776292)

> even though they regularly "forget" that you've opted-out of the redesign, on desktop

Has this been fixed? I was relying on a workaround, but forgot to set it up again when I reinstalled Windows a few months ago. I only realised that just now, when I went to check the details in order to recommend it. (I'm being vague because I'm unsure what it was; I think it was a Firefox extension.) I wouldn't have lasted this long if I was still frequently being sent back to new reddit.

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Re:Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting by livre on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:46PM (#23776488)

Try the Old Reddit Redirect extension, I've been using for over a year and I haven't seen the new reddit since then.

For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

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

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Re:Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting by stormdennis on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:04AM (#23777376)

After reading recently, here I think, that any addon can be a security risk, it feels a bit risky installing ones for just one site.

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Re:Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting by ajot on Thursday July 09, 2020 @09:55AM (#23780229)

I use Redirector [0] to perform this and other sites redirections for me (Twitter --> Nitter instance; Instagram --> Bibliogram instance, Zoom calls --> zoom web calls). So, at least it's not for just one site.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/redirector/

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Re:Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting by duffmancd on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:15PM (#23776607)

I had to edit the expiry date on the "redesign_optout" cookie that gets placed when you tick the optout. But an add-on (see sibling comment) is probably more reliable long-term.

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