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Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lynny@lemmy.world to c/technology@beehaw.org

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As quoted from the linked post.

It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To access the site you can log on via desktop, the mobile apps, or wait for the experiment to conclude.

This is separate from the API issue. This will actually BLOCK you from even viewing reddit on your phone without using the official app.

Archive.org link in case the post is removed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230611224026/https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/jim40zg/

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[–] marco@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@lynny@lemmy.world can you fix the archive link, please? The one you shared tries to take a new snapshot :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230611224026/https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/jim40zg/

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[–] feetongrass@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This happening in the middle of the API gate seems like a pretty dumb move, even for Reddit.

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[–] iuseit@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 1 year ago

Reddit is officially on a bankruptcy speedrun.

[–] moose_cannon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I literally just had an instance of opening a nsfw reddit link from a Google search and it informed me that I could only see nsfw posts in the app...

[–] sphere_au@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

Tapping on a Reddit link from mobile has mostly been pretty similar to this already for me. They have had an issue with DDG mobile browser for ages, refused to show more than a page of content and kept prompting me to "get the app", which didn't seem to recognise my third-party Reddit app... So I just hit the back button. Just recently, oddly, I noticed it had started working, but I'm in the habit of ignoring Reddit links on mobile anyway now so almost never go there whether it works or not.

[–] Sean_Thomas@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

As if it wasn’t bad enough to ask if I want to use the default mobile app every time I go to a Reddit page on my mobile web browser. 😕

[–] Mogster@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

What an amazingly hostile move. It's finally pushed me to delete the mobile app altogether.

[–] xylene@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think your link is wrong (that's the one that causes Archive.org to try a new capture). I got it working with this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230613091704/https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/jim40zg/

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[–] alternativeninja@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow. They really can't read the room.

[–] W0lf@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think they give a fuck about the room, pay or fuck off. I can't wait to short the stock. Lol

[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago

This is getting rediculous

[–] monobot@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Looks like Reddit wants to become more like TikTok.

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