Okay, I’ll explain in more detail:
- Click this link https://www.google.com/search?q=YOUR+SEARCH+HERE+site%3Areddit.com%2Fr%2Fmenopause and replace YOUR SEARCH HERE with whatever you want to search for, or just remove it to see all posts
- Click on one of the results, you’ll see “r/Menopause is a private community”
- Copy all of the text in your browser address bar
- Go to https://web.archive.org and paste the text you just copied
- Before pressing enter, replace the “www.reddit.com” at the beginning with “old.reddit.com”
- Press enter, a calendar will pop up, click on any of the listed dates and you’ll see the post
I wonder how they will enforce this. If you can just open a private window to bypass it, it won’t be very effective. Sure, they could do some fingerprinting, but I imagine avoiding false-positives would be very important, so I doubt they’d get very far with that.
Honestly, the only way I see is implementing a login wall, which I wouldn’t put past them. And that’s kinda scary. It would render so many links inaccessible to people without a Google account.
Or who knows, maybe they just want to make it more cumbersome and not completely prevent it, to get more people onto YouTube Premium, while the more determined people can continue adblocking because it’s not worth fighting a small minority.