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Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ok so they are earning on our data

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filter/

Install this and exclude it from all search results.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

This one works better: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hohser/ - more supported sites, and it doesn't break as often.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why not change your search engine and set up a SearX instance? You can find all instances here: https://searx.space. For example, I have set it up like this: https://search.inetol.net/search?q=%s&category_general=1&language=en&time_range=&safesearch=0&theme=simple, and it works wonders. Results are still mostly from Google, or you can configure it to be whatever you want.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hot take here.

I do believe in free information.

Instead of investing money in stop crawlers why do not make the data they are trying to crawl available to everyone for free so we can have a better world all together?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

They're also blocking posts by users who aren't banned or even got a warning. It appears to the user as though it's been posted, but it hasn't.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's still possible to search with "site:reddit.com ..."

Has it been implemented yet or are they blocking non-flagged searches? Which seems odd.

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