this is a beginning of the end for reddit as we know it
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Honestly, mobile browing (even using old.reddit) has been garbage for years because they detect your mobile OS and constantly try to push their app on you. Click on link, do you want to open in mobile app? let me open the playstore for you. And then you also get limited comments. To see more comments open in mobile app... You could do a case study in how to alienate your customers into leaving your platform on just mobile browsing reddit.
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hahah thats ridiculous, removing the last thing that made it actually bearable on mobile, now of all times...
Reddit finding ways to actively make things worse, while lemmy rapidly improves.
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TBH this is nothing new. They already randomly restrict you from viewing any type of nsfw content on the mobile browser version. It prompts you to download the app with no option to close the prompt.
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Well, that's actually fucking horrible. I would expect nothing less from Reddit tho...
GLaDOS-Voice: This test chamber involves heavy ad-tracking and how test subjects react when locked in a shitty mobile app.
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It's all part of the plan to make their horrid app experience the only way to view Reddit content on mobile, in order for them to get not just some user data, but ALL the user data.
What awful timing to run this experiment.
Good news is best delivered piece by piece, bad news all at once.
The outrage against Reddit is already at its peak, may as well use it as cover to do more anti-user stuff.
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Alrighty, they aren't even trying to be subtle anyone
Or many they still are, in which case wow thats kinda sad
They already made the mobile site practically unusable by constantly reminding you to use the app. The mobile browsing experience was just terrible. They can just show the same adds in the mobile browser...
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What a great time to get off Reddit
And what about people who don’t want to install an app for a variety of reasons?
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Earlier today, I was reviewing some Lemmy information in Google, and one of the links was to Reddit. I didn't think anything of it, but I clicked and saw the message that's given to mobile users saying you have to view NSFW content in the Reddit app. Fine, I've got the garbage app installed already for situations just like this. I click the link, and it throws an error stating my third party app (Boost, in this case) must be uninstalled in order to open links in Reddit.
No it doesn't, Reddit. And why do you care what's installed on my phone?
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Awesome, they're making even easier to not go back there.
We're watching Reddit die in real time.