If you’re like me, you want to see how Reddit looks mid-protest but don’t want to give Reddit any direct web traffic or contributing to their ad revenue. That’s where Libreddit comes in, see github.

Libreddit is a privacy-respecting frontend for Reddit, so you don’t need to worry about supporting them.

A list of instances can be found here. If you don’t care about instances, just click here.

Happy protesting.

EDIT: User @Malin@omg.qa made a point about web traffic, I adjusted above to reflect more accurately. Reddit will still be gaining web traffic, however not directly. This also means a loss of advertising revenue for Reddit. If you are going to check Reddit regardless, this is the best way to do it as far as I know.

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      Traffic is not useful for them by itself, user metadata is, and this keeps at least some of it away from them.

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        Usually, yes, but I’m sure they’ll be tracking traffic more than usual during the protest to see actual impact, so any traffic is counterproductive to the protest.

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      Also, isn’t this using the API? Pretty sure these websites aren’t long for this world.