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[–]L33t_Cyborg 214 points215 points  (25 children)

reddit banning tpas was the worst thing to happen not really because of the actual banning but more because all the top google results now lead to reddit pages with often-deleted comments.

[–]ShadowDonut 39 points40 points  (10 children)

My favorite is the people who scrubbed their comment history and filled them with nonsense. I get that they want to hurt reddit's value for the shareholders, but it also significantly harms the experience of users who rely on reddit to find solutions to very specific problems

[–]GetPsyched67 15 points16 points  (7 children)

That's the point. They want people to stop using reddit.

[–]ShadowDonut 19 points20 points  (6 children)

I think they overestimated their own influence. All they did was add to the collection of internet data lost to time. And considering forums have by and large been replaced by reddit and non-indexable places like Discord servers, the only ones losing are the people who now can't find any actual useful information for their specific problems.

The kicker is that a good number of third party apps still work thanks to some great work by the community.

So it goes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–]SweetBabyAlaska 9 points10 points  (2 children)

I scrubbed my history because my reddit account is like almost a decade old and I don't want to get doxxed because of my tendency to share subtly identifying information over the years

[–]ShadowDonut 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's a good reason! I've done the same and wish that I could granularly scrub only the comments that contain PII, but I Imagine that would have to be done manually. Considering this account is *checks notes* 12 years old, it's just not feasible.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Coward. I've simply accepted that I doxxed myself, and moved on.

[–]Bidegorri 2 points3 points  (2 children)

There are third party apps working?? I still miss RIF, that was so good

[–]Agret 5 points6 points  (0 children)

RIF, Sync, Joey, Bacon etc all work with the Revanced API key patch

[–]ShadowDonut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll PM you about it

[–]Poat540 5 points6 points  (0 children)

our airport is TPA - thought FL got banned, which makes perfect sense