You are still giving them traffic, just not directly.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Traffic is not useful for them by itself, user metadata is, and this keeps at least some of it away from them.
Usually, yes, but I'm sure they'll be tracking traffic more than usual during the protest to see actual impact, so any traffic is counterproductive to the protest.
thanks for this, i edited the post. that slipped my mind entirely.
I was just hoping to hear reports from other people about what was happening on Reddit.
Similarly, if you are looking for different front-ends for other services:
https://farside.link/ has a large selection and I've seen librereads (https://librereads.vercel.app/) making the rounds today
Additionally, Libredirect also have a list of instances like farside.link, but with other types of services as well. I didnt do a thorough comparison yet. See https://github.com/libredirect/instances/blob/main/data.json. I think they also regularly update it.
Why not just use an ad blocker and a browser extension to randomize user agent?