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The app is probably the only reason Reddit has any commercial value. The website version is almost unusable without old.reddit.com and a reformatting/feature adding plug-in called RES. I have to assume there is a huge crossover between people who will seek out plugins and people who run ad blocks or VPNs. I'd love to see a breakdown of just how little Reddit make per user on ads on the web based site. This is before…
The moment they decide to cripple 3rd party apps is probably when I'm quitting reddit. Don't even get me started on the new design which I opted out of.
By doing this I no longer see any Reddit ads.
If they hadnt pushed so hard to use their app and ruin the entire Reddit mobile experience, I would still probably just be browsing on their website (which would give them some ad eyes).
Now I'll never switch back - Apollo is just awesome for Reddit.
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Change the www in the url to an i
Or an "old". You can use "old.reddit.com" instead of "www.reddit.com", but you might get an SSL error if you try to use " https://www.old.reddit.com/..." .
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set in my options as default and never ever wanted more
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
I can only imagine half of the downloads came from people trying to select the “web” option on the popup and missing. On a serious note, it must really be a good strategy to utterly ruin the web experience, if you want to get more people on your app, because its been the hot new thing for a while. At least with Reddit, third party clients are well-supported, unlike say Twitter. I use Apollo on iOS.
I can only imagine half of the downloads came from people trying to select the “web” option on the popup and missing. On a serious note, it must really be a good strategy to utterly ruin the web experience, if you want to get more people on your app, because its been the hot new thing for a while. At least with Reddit, third party clients are well-supported, unlike say Twitter. I use Apollo on iOS.
Am I the only one that likes the official Reddit app? I used Alien Blue before, which has actually been replaced by the official app, and there's nothing I can complain about in either. The only regression is that now there are ads, but I find them so unintrusive I don't really care.