bypass-paywalls-chrome VS Reddit

Might just be me on mobile, but I do use Bypass Paywalls along w/ uBoock Origin on desktop.

I don't see anyone mentioning Bypass Paywalls. It lets you bypass paywalls on most mainstream news outlets. It's a must-have for me and I wish it was available for Safari.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

Install https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

Not sure if this always works since the website may not send the whole article initially. archive.is has been my go to bypass paywalls. This extension as well: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

Get past pay walls https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

- It uses clone of a static list of paywalled websites sourced from a popular Chrome extension. (https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/ma...) So changing the paywall list is slow and manual.

Hot is not a trade secret. How it works is public information. Here the code:

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/l...

They no longer use that code though, right? You can't find the site on their list of repositories, you can only find it here: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit, and that hasn't been updated since 2017.

And before some idiot says bullshit, Reddit is open source. https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

They used to have a public github repo, but archived it many years ago. Old reddit seems to use the same codebase to generate all of the old mobile sites, RSS feeds, and other pages just by swapping out templates. So they'd have to drop or re-implement all of those things at once. Probably easier to modify it to fetch data from the new reddit API rather than directly from the database, then leave the whole system largely alone as legacy code, as none of those views of the site really have much reason to need new features. https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/tree/master/r2/r2/templates

You should be fine as long as you follow the API access rules. As other have mentioned there may be some rate-limiting but in my tests I was fine fetching every 15-20min (and sometimes much more often during testing, but I was at most at 2-3 calls per minute).

reddit was built using python and pgsql and they source was open for a while. You can look at the archive here: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/models/comment_tree.py

As long as you're following the rate-limiting rules should generally be fine, but not something I've experimented with.

Reddit's admins stopped developing Old Reddit publicly nearly five years ago, and New Reddit has never been public. God alone knows what all they're hiding, but things being broken and never getting fixed is at least partly their own fault. Jeez, you guys!