Reddit is reportedly suspending users for using third-party apps that spoof the official app : reddit

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Reddit is reportedly suspending users for using third-party apps that spoof the official app (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This post is woefully inaccurate. Firstly, all the revanced mod does is change the 3rd party API to a personal developer API. Not one single user has had any problems doing this as this API is offered for users to make and use apps. There's a call limit for everyone's personal API so it can't be abused.

This issue is from something separate... KoalaS made an IfR clone that uses the official Reddit app API. This is easily detectible and a really stupid decision to make, and an even dumber decision to use.

TLDR: this has nothing to do with revanced mods, just a really stupid specific cloned app

Edit: Never use a pre-made modded APK for this. If you do, you will be sharing an API with others and that could put your account at risk. Always patch your own app with your own API.

Seems quite stupid to tryp to spoof the official app, I guess personal revanced app are still here for long

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's stupid if:
- you do it without understanding the possible consequences
- you do it in a way that can be detected
It's not stupid if:
- you are aware of the potential consequences and you consider it an acceptable risk
- you are very confident that it won't be detected

For example I use a similar method to access Discord and I am aware that my account might get banned if this is detected. It's a calculated risk that I am ok with.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My revanced apps are still working great when I pop in from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good. Hopefully, at least some of these people realize that Reddit is a lost cause, and that their only option is to migrate to other sites.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

IMO reddit was heading this route ever since they got rid of Victoria Taylor in 2015. ( https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33787004 for those who don't know)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Agreed. It was headed that way but most of us, including me, ignored the warning signs. I should've quit when they cancelled Reddit Gifts giving some lame bs reason. I should've quit when they launched new Reddit with all it's ads and tracking crap. I should've quit when they started turning the site into more mainstream social media. But I still continued because I was mostly shielded from all that by third-party apps, and sticking to niche communities and staying away from r/all. But the API thing was the last straw for me, if there was any proof Spez was the next Zuckerberg, that was it, that was all the motivation I needed to quit.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Using RIF made me blind to a lot of this bs (ads, layout changes, etc.) till suddenly it was gone.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pffffy. Spez isn’t the next Zuck. He’s not even Zuck we got at home. At best, he’s a poor photo copy at the bottom of the flea market bargain bin Zuck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Bargain bin musk. Pastey white supremacist narcissist.

Zuck isn't a supremacist. At least he's got that going for him.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Hindsight is 20/20 as they say.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit was heading downhill before that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've been pissed for years but with no real alternative. Now Lemmy both exists and has enough users to not be a ghost town. There's no reason to go back niw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"Popcorn tastes good"

Alexis Ohanian

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (6 children)

My Reddit accounts usually got banned for one dumb reason or another anyhow. I'll never forget my first and longest account getting the insta axe for saying everyone should punch Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My first ban was telling people to remember to get their butts checked for cancer on a post announcing the death of someone (who died from colon cancer).

We know Redditors don't read articles, and I was trying to be helpful because that's how people like Total biscuit died.

Was perma-banned for "harassment and bullying".

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got an account suspended, not banned, full site-wide suspension by the admins literally for saying I didn't like a comic. No profanity, no racism, no trolling, it was a parent level comment so not snapping back at anyone. It said something along along the lines of (paraphrasing as I don't remember the exact words) "Has anyone noticed that webcomics are never funny?" That;'s it. Site-wide account suspension .

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I got a sitewide suspension for "report abuse" for reporting disinformation in a post on r/conservative. Reddit supports fascist propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AdVoCaTiNg ViOlEnCe!!1!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But they only ever mind it when it's aginst right wingers

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I lost mine just before the app shutdown for calling a right wing troll a loser. They said I repeatedly violated rules and perma banned me. All I can figure is I got bombed with reports or the admin handling my appeal is one of them

Oh well. Now I'm here

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

This is on brand.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I am not surprised knowing Spez.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Soooo, you post something 5 hours after the top comment in the original thread disproves the all thing. Did you even read it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

ITT no one actually read the link.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it true that being banned is the best way to delete an account on social media?

Easier then right out deleting?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on the site. Also, your data would usually not be deleted just because you're banned.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the reply!

Don't some sites keep your data even after deleting, they just disable log in and access to user?

I remember reading about it, but I may be wrong...

Will look into it more.