Enhancing the Reddit browsing experience privately and securely?

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Besides using a VPN, are there any scripts or extensions for enhancing the browsing experience on Reddit privately and securely?

I’m looking for desktop, Android, and iOS ideas, especially for Firefox. I don’t understand why not all comments are visible, and I’ll have to click the plus icon to see them all. I also want to sort all comments by new by default.

Anyone here know how to do this and have other tips?

Thanks!

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https://libredirect.github.io/ perhaps

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On android I’ve been using the foss client, redreader.

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Redlib is a privacy front-end for Reddit:

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Did Reddit crack down on third-party apps? Any issues with the app or Reddit in general?

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They did, a long time ago hence why popular third party client like sync, boost etc got shut down. Redreader got special permission and exemption, for non-commercial accessibility-focused apps. Only problem with redreader is it can’t access nsfw sub and post.

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Post as in no posting? I can just sign in with an account and read? What do I do if I want to post?

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Haven’t tried it for logging in, but there is photon-reddit.com

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Everything you do on Reddit is tracked by Google. You can’t log in without Google seeing it, and your user name has every action tracked. What you say, what you upvote, what you see - all data tracked on the Reddit side of things. Anything you do while logged it is tied to you. If you use the same browser all the time, Google can use browser fingerprinting to associate your email address and any other data with your reddit account.

If you use another browser, a privacy frontend like redlib, and a VPN to change your IP address, you can read, not post, reddit posts and not have it all be tracked.

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My strategy with Reddit is to use RSS on all the subreddits. And only open up pages that I think I might want to read more about or potentially even comment upon.

Although of late, sometimes the RSS feeds don’t appear reliable. Or my RSS provider gets blocked. Dunno.

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You may already use these, but email aliases would be something I’d add for sure.

Fingerprinting is a big problem on Reddit (like anywhere) so that’s something small that will at least break up your association with other sites/services.

You could juggle accounts in different Firefox containers, but that might get tedious.

But I would try and isolate sites like Reddit into their own little sandbox as much as possible.

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