subzero12479

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open external links in a new tab (lemmy.world)
 

I wrote a quick script that opens links to external sites in a new tab. It works everywhere, not just on lemmy.world. You need a browser extension to embed custom javascript to use it.

document.addEventListener('click', evt => {
	const href = (evt.target?.tagName === 'A' ? evt.target : evt.target?.closest('a'))?.getAttribute('href');
	if (href && !href.startsWith(location.origin) && href.match(/^(?:https?:)?\/\//)) {
		window.open(href, '_blank');
		evt.preventDefault();
	}
});
BotDefense is leaving Reddit in c/technology@lemmy.world
[โ€“] subzero12479@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefense_is_wrapping_up_operations/

Like many anti-abuse projects on Reddit, we've done all of this for free while putting up with Reddit's penchant for springing detrimental changes on developers and moderators (e.g., adding API limits without advance notice and blocking Pushshift) and figuring out workarounds for numerous scalability issues that Reddit never seems to fix. Without Pushshift, the number of malicious bots we were able to ban dropped to 5,517 in May.

The "blocking Pushift" part is what actively makes their work harder by a lot.

How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though? in c/technology@lemmy.world
[โ€“] subzero12479@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Bots on Reddit for example did farm karma to later sell those accounts (more karma makes accounts look more legit) or circumnavigate karma thresholds to spam. There is no karma here so that's (hopefully) not going to become a thing.