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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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[–] KatieAKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Wow. Do they even understand how this looks????

[–] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 3 points 1 year ago

They've already made the "new" reddit web view unusable for any sub marked NSFW. I feel sorry for the web devs at Reddit that spent all this time making a responsive site that works on mobile, then to be forced to artificially block access to push app usage.

[–] bahcodad@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Fuck reddit man. They're doing all they can to kill it

[–] tiny_electron@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

This feels like a huge joke lmao

[–] alienBlues@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

They really decided to sink the boat. Such foolish level of unfriendliness to users was not seen since the time Facebook purposefully slowed their app to see how much its public was addicted.

[–] caffeineplease@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Ooof

[–] Stoneblackdog@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

To be fair the mobile browser version was already shit.

[–] Luminance6716@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Whelp it was a good run with Reddit. But their app is trash and now experimenting blocking browser access is bullshit. That may be the final straw that convinced me to delete my account.

[–] bitrate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I will say though that the mobile site has sucked for a long time. Lol

[–] Spookbooty@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

That’s pretty crazy. Now I’m wondering how easy it is to change a user agent on iOS with either Firefox or Safari.

[–] smokinjoe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know that twitter pulled a lot of the same bullshit but I have to give them and their developers credit: they created a great app that ensured people could move away from their preferred 3rd party app pretty easily.

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