[getprotego.app](https://getprotego.app) | [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6737959724?pt=119121204&ct=Protego3&mt=8)

Disclosure up front: This is a browser extension, **not a Reddit client**, and it costs two dollars. If that's a dealbreaker, no hard feelings, the rest of this is still about how I read Reddit now.

I never really replaced Apollo. I tried a couple of things, none of them stuck, and eventually I stopped looking and just started opening [reddit.com](http://reddit.com) in mobile Safari. Which was bleak for a while, because the website is the version of Reddit with the fewest concessions to anybody.

But the website turned out to have one thing no app has: it's a web page, and a browser extension gets to change a web page before you see it. So I started building a Safari web extension I could use to make Reddit more enjoyable which I ended up making available for others as well. Version 3 got approved this week after months of loooooong nights and weekends fixing bugs and adding features.

https://preview.redd.it/i42n2gn3jffh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=1f52fc10859bdd347e83b38836ef6a3ab93c9ce3

Some features:

* Filtering by keyword, whole community, individual user, or the site a link points to. Wildcards, groups you can switch off at once, and a # pattern for any 1 to 3 digit number.
* Hiding the stuff there's no setting for: thumbnails, avatars, flair, badges, vote controls, join buttons, banners, recommendations, Reddit Answers, and the endless nudges to install the app.
* An automatic redirect to old.reddit.com with an endless feed, which is the closest I've got to how Reddit used to feel.
* Limits, which blocks Reddit itself in steps rather than just hiding posts, and can be automated with Apple Focus.
* More features: [https://getprotego.app/features](https://getprotego.app/features)

Protego's Limits is why I still Reddit it every day. There's a step where the feeds are blocked but a direct link to an individual post still opens. So home and popular don't load and there's nothing to fall into during work hours, but a Reddit thread that turns up in a search result works fine. I get my answer and I'm out.

https://preview.redd.it/m9yqanyhjffh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=8358ba68598593dad6e140bab9e76ecbf6d7a34f

Being straight about what it isn't: it's not a client. No custom interface, no gestures, no Pixel Pals. It's reddit.com with the bad parts removed.

Safari extension with a companion app, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro on one purchase, $1.99 right now instead of $2.99. 

No subscription, no account, no tracking, lists sync through your own iCloud.

[getprotego.app](https://getprotego.app) | [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6737959724?pt=119121204&ct=Protego3&mt=8)

Three years on from the API changes, I ended up back on reddit.com in Safari full time. Here is the extension I built to make that work.