Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•2 years ago

    It was absolutely unbearable to use. Had it on my phone for all of 10 minutes. Left a 1 star review and uninstalled it

  • @[email protected]English
    7•2 years ago

    I’d rather take the barely functioning lemmy apps over the invasive adds of the reddit app

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 years ago

      Less than - if you look OP isn’t subscribed to AskReddit, so it’s 0% content they actually have subscribed to.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 years ago

      They try to justify this by claiming they’re not profitable, while at the same time wasting so much time and money on terrible features and changes.

      The reason why Reddit is not profitable is because of terrible management that tries to justify their existence.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•2 years ago

    If you are on Android and have to use the official app, I recommend patching it with Revanced Manager. There’s a patch that will remove the ads.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 years ago

      Why would you have to use the app though? What kooky series of events would line up that you able to only use it and nothing else?

      Oh yeah, wait. that’s why I’m here.

  • @[email protected]English
    59•2 years ago

    Imagine signing up to Reddit to discuss your gambling problems and then on the first sign on you get hit with this 💀💀

    • @[email protected]English
      22•2 years ago

      You’re browsing /r/stopgambling? Here are some gambling ads for you!

      This sort of thing happened several times over there. I’m making up this example (I think), but there were a few posts on the mod subs begging reddit not to do things like that.

      • @[email protected]English
        12•2 years ago

        If you use any subs related to eating disorders you’ll probably get diet stuff as well

  • @[email protected]English
    17•2 years ago

    The most sleazy thing it does is that if you want to download or share an image with your friends in, say, a text chain, it brands that image with Reddit crap.

    They go completely out of their way to make the app unusable.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•2 years ago

      You can turn that off in settings. But seriously it’s annoying that you have to do that in the first place

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 years ago

        It’s a stupid idea that brings them no value and it’s user-hostile.

        I didn’t realize it could be turned off though! I guess that’s useful for when I hold my nose and scroll quickly through the meme subreddits to find things for my meme text chains.