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Error: Forbidden - RiF not working (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dolphin01@lemmy.world to c/redditwasfun@lemmy.world

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Error: Forbidden first appeared on August 2

RiF started working again a few hours later

Is now appearing again on August 3

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[–] siipale@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So are you using a patched app and supply your own API key? Could it be that Reddit tries to get rid of that kind of use of their API?

[–] spirally@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. It didn't just start working again on its own for me, but I got it working again: I updated revanced, uninstalled rif, added a description and URL in the app in Reddit settings (see below some people with user agent issues indicating that blank fields are a problem), re-patched the APK, installed the newly patched rif and I seem to be back in business.

Edit: also yes, I think they'll keep trying to break this kind of workaround, so I'm not thinking of this as a long term thing.