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  • UBlock origin will let you do this. Come back to this comment in a couple minutes…

    Edit: Add something like this to your uBlock Origin custom filters. (The sites I included are all paywalls, but you can substitute your own)

    feddit.org.##.title:has-text(/theintercept.com|economist.com|military.com|wired.com|theverge.com|theglobeandmail.com|404media.co|nytimes.com|vox.com|washingtonpost.com|theatlantic.com/)

    This will turn something like this:

    into something like this:

    (The “Anker’s Sound” post has had its link and headline hidden)

    Reddit Enhancement Suite had FilteReddit, which had more fine grained controls to block posts linking to specific sites. I’ve been looking for a Lemmy equivalent, but UO is the best I’ve found so far.










  • I start typing in URLs that aren’t linked anywhere on the site, then I’m accessing stuff the site hasn’t explicitly indicated I have access to.

    Doesn’t work like that. With the policy you describe, anyone who ever sees a “404” error is a criminal.

    I don’t have to publish everything I am willing to offer. You are free to ask for something I may or may not have. I get to decide how to respond to your request.

    To use your analogy, I can walk up to your door and request a glass of water. You’ve never explicitly offered a glass of water to anyone; I’m still allowed to ask. If you dont want me to have your water, you can say “No” or you can ignore me.

    When you go ahead and give me a glass of water, you don’t get to claim I stole it from you. It is not theft to ask.

    You have to make some sort of effort to have your web server limit my access, and I have to make some sort of effort to convince your webserver to bypass those restrictions before you can claim I am exceeding my authorization.