I'm considering filtering reddit out using Portmaster since I use Portmaster anyway.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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this is already so much like reddit of old, im cool with it. if it comes up in a search thats fine, might port the data though!
I put reddit on my dns blocking list for now. Prevents accidental access. Replaced the buttons on my browser and phone with lemmy, since it's the thing i probably zombie-touch by habit.
yeah, it's very difficult. even in google searches, the links come up and I then realize how much I depend on reddit for google searches.
I've been testing out other search engines and have currently landed on Brave Search. Every single time you search, there's a big block of threads from reddit near the top of the search results. It's not been easy to stay away.
I unfortunately had to use reddit to resolve an issue with angular 😭😭😭
Yeah, I'm definitely going to keep going back to Reddit for tech issues. There's over a decade of information there and it'll take a long time before any alternatives can compare.
Seriously! I ended up blocking reddit and its subdomains with my pihole so that I'd stop clicking on things from google searches.
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If you don't run your own search (SearxNG) and dont use pihole, you can get the uBlacklist extension for chrome/firefox to blacklist Reddit in search results on Google/Bing/DDG/etc.
To deter myself further, I even went so far as to block any search results from Reddit in my SearxNG instance.
If anyone else is interested.
In settings.yml uncomment the following, they are commented out by default
enabled_plugins:
- 'Hostname replace' # see hostname_replace configuration below
hostname_replace:
Then add '(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': false under hostname_replace, restart SearxNG and bobs your uncle.
i have successfully made it a whole 12 hours without opening reddit. i've chewed a lot of gum and also been to the gym. i think i can do it.
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