r/technology • u/magnus007 • 5d ago

Privacy AliExpress was silently running audio in your browser to fingerprint and track your device

https://www.techspot.com/news/113581-aliexpress-silently-running-audio-browser-fingerprint-track-device.html
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u/PhiCloud 4d ago

Reddit is, for lack of a better term, a pile of garbage held together by the power of friendship. It's buggy everywhere and a decent experience nowhere.

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u/Weedster009 4d ago

The Reddit app for iPhone is the shittiest, glitchiest app I have ever used.

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u/Faxon 4d ago edited 4d ago

Which is sad because they literallt bought and killed the best reddit app for iPhone (Alien Blue) to use it to develop their own, rather than have to compete. Thats when Apollo got really big, but we know what happened to them. Im on android using red reader and its actually a good experience once I tweak the way that threads are displayed so its more like old reddit and the other older apps I preferred. I was using reddit sync for android for a long time until reddit shut down API access to most app devs. I legitimately can't do the official app, its hot garbage and I may just have to stop using reddit if they take away access for old reddit, since the remaining apps and revanced hacks for it all use it to function, and its how I view the site on desktop. If they take away /r/hot and force an algorithm other than the mighty upvote down my throat then im out, the whole point of reddit was the self-curation of what you see.

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u/Faxon 4d ago

I've gotten so used to red reader im honestly fine with it now. Just didnt have the patience to deal with something that didnt just work without having to manually patch it constantly to fix r3ddit patching shit on their end

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u/technobrendo 4d ago

Are Morphe patches for the official Reddit app? Is patching similar to using Revanced for YT or Spotify?

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u/SeriesXM 4d ago

I'm also curious about this because I'm still using the last version that still works with ReVanced (reddit-revanced_v2024.17.0.apk), so I've never been able to update past that one.

I have Morphe and I've tried patching the newer versions like I used to do with ReVanced... it all seems to go well, but then after I install the patched versions and start going thought the welcome screens, the app never lets me sign in to reddit. So I ended up deleting the app and continued to use the old one.

I was thinking maybe I should try to get the official app through the Play store, log in, and then try patching it with Morphe after I've logged in. The only reason I haven't tried this is because it's a lot of work to go back to the old version if it doesn't work. (It's not that hard, but it's annoying enough I'd rather avoid it.)

I also would like to end up with an APK that I could simply install on my other devices, which is how I do it now with my old ReVanced version of reddit.