I might be remembering wrong, but you forgot a step. You need to change/delete the referer header. When Reddit detects that you came from Google, for example, it will not render all of the comments and instead try to do a similar rendering of suggested other posts.
Of course, this is not something you can turn off in your preferences. You need to use a browser plug-in to do this.
Anecdotally I don't have any such browser extension and it doesn't show me the "partial rendering with suggested posts" view when I'm opted out of the new reddit.
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You can stop that from being necessary:
(1) Go to https://new.reddit.com/settings .
(2) Enable "Opt out of the redesign" ("Revert back to old Reddit for the time being").
(3) Visit https://reddit.com/ and you should then have the same experience there as when explicitly visiting https://old.reddit.com/ .
That requires having an account and logging in, neither of which I particularly wish to do
I might be remembering wrong, but you forgot a step. You need to change/delete the referer header. When Reddit detects that you came from Google, for example, it will not render all of the comments and instead try to do a similar rendering of suggested other posts.
Of course, this is not something you can turn off in your preferences. You need to use a browser plug-in to do this.
Anecdotally I don't have any such browser extension and it doesn't show me the "partial rendering with suggested posts" view when I'm opted out of the new reddit.