This has been going on for at least a month. They're trying to force their app on people so they can serve them ads. Unfortunately it's just another reason not to return to that god-forsaken website. This all seems motivated to increase their IPO price by touting the number of users for their mobile app.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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Can't you just change the browser's ID string and make it look like it's not a mobile browser?
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Bet they are working on a new mobile app that they will charge for.
The default site literally doesn't work on mobile anyway so it's not like it makes much difference.
The site worked well enough on mobile... Reddit would say it worked too well. Sites can't collect nearly as much data about users as apps can, so they've got an incentive to try and get people to use the official app. The app isn't good though, so the only way they can get people to switch over is by making the site worse, and forcing people to use the app.
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The API issue was a huge nail into the coffin of the user experience at reddit. For sure, mobile site will disappear and then old.reddit.
Everything about this is utterly tone deaf, you can see it in u/spez answer in his AMA about how the company will continue to be profit driven until it’s profitable. Bro, this is not how you talk to your user base. Your actions, policies, and strategic outlook should be toward driving the user experience and your service so that it is profitable. Not degrading all things for grinding down every extra cent at the expense of your entire companies differentiators.
Fuck spez, fuck reddit.
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If you want to lurk Reddit without being tracked, please use Teddit.net, they won't complain about using a mobile browser.
Is this supposed to be some kind of gotcha so Reddit can say 'hah, you used the app to look at Reddit!'?
Are they legally allowed to just do that? Just shadow ban certain users temporarily for an 'experiment'?
If so... Why is that legally allowed??
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Man, they're really trying their hardest to get rid of me.