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Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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Re: Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

#11

I'm getting so tired of Reddit's antics. Also removing content seemingly at random without any meaningful explanation, and ignoring any messages about it. Which both makes mods look bad and is a blatant violation of the Digital Services Act.

The mods are terrible too. Getting anything to stick on reddit involves translating it precisely to that individual communities language. We all use the same vocabularies to speak incomprehensible languages at each other. If you cant speak the language of a community or directly challenge it you will get nowhere. What a shitty little cave it is.

Re: Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

#12
Whatever it is that’s in their app, I REALLY don’t want it if these are the methods they use to push it.

I like browsing Reddit sometimes. I’d use it more if there was a non-Reddit browsing app, but those are gone now. So I sometimes use the mobile website.

I guess they‘re not particularly interested in my eyeballs.

Re: Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

#13
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They are testing things. There was an undismissable banner for a week or so and now it’s gone for me. It did not get me to download the app. I just stopped clicking reddit links.

Yeah, fortunately went away. For me it would always appear after like 30s of being on the page, meaning I would have to reload all the time while reading comments. Effective way for me to break out of the mindless scrolling though. I'm almost said they unfucked it.
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