> cloud Light: no JavaScript, no ads, no tracking, no bloat
I have been an addicted reddit user since before they had user accounts. I never had any desire to block reddit ads until the last ~6-12 months or so when it would autoplay ads when I scroll. I have "no thumbnails" so it doesn't show me the ad other than a line of text or so. I have "old" reddit enabled on my account -- this works for desktop. And now I've started using the explicit "old.reddit.com" on mobile. But I would prefer mobile-optimized reddit without audio ads. I will probably give libreddit a try.
EDIT: of course, since it's privacy focused I can't login to my account and reddit is unbearable if you try and use it without your account to curate the subreddits. Whoops, scratch that idea!
I find that old.reddit.com is ok on desktop (with uBlock origin), and for mobile there's several third party apps that make for a better experience than a website. I personally like "Relay for reddit".
Teddit is a free and open source alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy.
Teddit doesn't require you to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
The source is available on Codeberg at https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit.
No JavaScript or ads
All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Reddit
Prevents Reddit from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint
Lightweight (teddit frontpage: ~30 HTTP requests with ~270 KB of data downloaded vs. Reddit frontpage: ~190 HTTP requests with ~24 MB)
I never understood why so many of these Reddit viewers have no JS in them (well it's generally a cultural preference among a certain crowd, but still feels irrational.) I usually open a forum like Reddit and have it open all day, I'd be fine with loading a SPA and having it make background requests to fetch API output and render them in page and give nice functionality, as long as the code is open and there's no ads. I've been building this myself because both Libreddit and Teddit don't use JS.
Unfortunately, Slide is abandoned by the author. He replied to an issue on github saying basically that he has no time to maintain it and that and that the code is a mess and needs to he completely rewritten from scratch so he doesn't recommend anyone else bother. Slowly but surely the bugs are mounting. There's so e new-fangked thing that's leaving blue boxes everywhere and videos are breaking again. And I think he also mentioned that the Play Store won't let him push small bug fixes without making another large change that he has no time to work on so it's defacto dead in the water now and will never be updated.
I've been trying Infinity from time to time which others have mentioned as the new OSS client, but it seems less textual than Slide. Sline also has great navigation that is immediately missed elsewhere.
(At least the Android version, dunno about the iOS)
There are 3rd party mobile-optimized apps btw. Support logging in and most reddit features. I use Boost for Reddit personally, but there are others like Baconreader.
> cloud Light: no JavaScript, no ads, no tracking, no bloat
I have been an addicted reddit user since before they had user accounts. I never had any desire to block reddit ads until the last ~6-12 months or so when it would autoplay ads when I scroll. I have "no thumbnails" so it doesn't show me the ad other than a line of text or so. I have "old" reddit enabled on my account -- this works for desktop. And now I've started using the explicit "old.reddit.com" on mobile. But I would prefer mobile-optimized reddit without audio ads. I will probably give libreddit a try.
[1] https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit
EDIT: of course, since it's privacy focused I can't login to my account and reddit is unbearable if you try and use it without your account to curate the subreddits. Whoops, scratch that idea!