Yet you give in out of desperation only to find the subreddit is private.

So many tech answers on reddit. Hopefully the community here will bloom soon enough

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Don’t forget that it wasn’t reddit that provided that information, it was a user that submitted the information for free.

Since I left Reddit, I’ve had a few searches yield very helpful Reddit results. I read them and move on. I’m running an adblocker and I’m not providing value by commenting. I see no problem with this.

Copy the link and search an archive; the sub me may be down anyways. Also post your solution here. Be the change you want to see

Can just use the cached version. That’s what I’ve been doing. In and out in 2 seconds

I know it’s a meme, but the way I see it is, giving Reddit a click or two won’t really move the needle much.

Really it’s about the long-term. If you’re on the Fediverse creating content and not on Reddit, eventually those search results will stop pointing at Reddit. That’s the real win I think.

Whenever that happens, I take a look at the result and bring it here.

I make a post at the relevant community. If it doesn’t exist, I make it. I encourage you to do the same. :)

Reddit has become yahoo answers to me. Not a place I browse

True this, I had an issue using the duckstation emulator and then googled and the whole first page of search hits were reddit posts to a blacked out sub. Grrr.

// ==UserScript==
// @name        archive.org link
// @include     *://*.google*/search*
// @include     *://*
// @exclude     *://*.archive.org*
// @exclude     *://archive.org*
// @grant       none
// @version     1.0
// @author      memchr
// @description 6/15/2023, 6:57:32 AM
// ==/UserScript==
function get_archive_href(href) {
  return "https://web.archive.org/web/" + href.replace(/^https?:\/\/www\.reddit\.com/, "https://old.reddit.com")
}

if (window.location.hostname.match(/^(\w*\.)?google.*$/)) { // google
  const results = document.querySelectorAll('div.yuRUbf > a');
  results.forEach(e => {
    let href = e.getAttribute('href');
    href = get_archive_href(href);
    let archive_link = document.createElement('a');
    archive_link.href = href;
    archive_link.textContent = "archive";
    archive_link.style.marginLeft = "10px";
    e.insertAdjacentElement("afterend", archive_link);
  })
} else if (!window.location.hostname.match(/(localhost$|^(127|192|10)\.)/)) {
  const href = get_archive_href(location.href);
  document.addEventListener('keydown', function(event) {
    if (event.ctrlKey && event.altKey && event.key === 'a') {
      window.location.href = href;
    }
  });
}

press shift+ctrl+A or click on archive if you use google.

If I need info, and info is there, I click.

Surely someone has already written a browser extension to automatically redirect reddit links to archive.[org|is]

It’s been so difficult lately with all the subreddits going private. Makes me sad that I can’t get help through Reddit anymore. Years and years of QnA down the drain.