Use a libreddit mirror like https://reddit.adminforge.de to link to Reddit threads so that Reddit gets 0 traffic and 0 ad revenue from us opening the thread.
For example, if the Reddit link is:
https://old.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/14clza9/i_present_to_you_john_blobiver/
Then you simply have to replace old.reddit.com by reddit.adminforge.de so that the link becomes:
https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/aww/comments/14clza9/i_present_to_you_john_blobiver/
There is a plugin for Firefox and Chromium that has redirects for several big sites.
This is amazing, privacy tools are only getting easier to setup
One thing I will mention regarding this: Make sure when turning on the reddit redirect to also ping instances. The default one that the extension gave me was apparently unable to reach the site, but it worked after finding ones closer to me.
But then isn’t adminforge requesting that content in some way from Reddit which is at least a boost to their stats?
If by stats you mean how many times something is read, that’s not really relevant since the content is being served by the mirror without Reddit’s ads or trackers.
I don’t know anything about this particular site, but typically these kinda sites operate on a cached version that is requested just once. So reddit would get a single view no matter how many views your link gets.
For sites like Google’s cache or archive.org, they often were gonna cache the site no matter what.
these kinda sites operate on a cached version that is requested just once.
the link in this post (which is 2h old) has comments, some of them younger than 30 minutes, so no, i don’t think so…
Pro tip
This is good to know and could be something I’d use a lot, but it isn’t working. Every Reddit address I try it on, the reply is “Nothing here. Head back home?”
Does the page need to be pre-prepared, like a web.archive.org address?
You could try another instance. Here’s a list for you https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit-instances/blob/master/instances.md
