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

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Dolphin01 to c/redditwasfun

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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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[–] spirally 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yep, the Revanced workaround just died for me. I wonder if making a new fake app to access the API with would work again? I'm sure deactivations would continue to happen periodically even then. Redreader is an accessibility app that still has permission and is of course better than the official app, so I'll move to that if I want to use Reddit on mobile now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I got an error message telling me that something was wrong with my user agent. Is that what you got, too?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's what I got

Full message: whoa there, pardner! reddit's awesome and all, but you may have a bit of a problem.

Make sure your User-Agent is not empty, is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternate User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block.

You can read Reddit's Terms of Service here.

if you think that we've incorrectly blocked you or you would like to discuss easier ways to get the data you want, please contact us at this email address.

when contacting us, please include your ip address which is: and reddit account

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Revanced released an update that fixes it. RiF is working for me again.

[–] spirally 1 points 11 months ago

No, just said I'm logged out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.