I don’t use Reddit anymore, but I wanted to search something that I couldn’t find anywhere. This is what I saw. After killing all the other apps, Reddit now is trying to force us to use their own spyware app.
Cryptobros, e-thots, and ads. That’s Reddit these days.
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the thing is, the one and only purpose of this dialog is to increase metrics of engagement, like how many users download the app. they don’t need to convert every mobile web user to an app user immediately. as long as that dialog is driving the engagement metrics apps, it is doing its work correctly. obviously at some point there will stop increasing engagement, so the middle managers will turn and try to squeeze a bit more by removing the loopholes, but it is not an urgent problem. it even might be intentional so they can squeeze a bit more later
the one that i am surprised at how bad it is is Twitter, that is still hosted at twitter.com . even going to x.com just redirects to twitter.com . i assume that there’s some major engineering problem that is preventing them from switching, but still, it has been almost 10 months and the clown at chief really pushed for the rebranding
Don’t think of it as them being unprofessional, think of it as them having a safety valve to relieve the pressure of some people wanting to leave Reddit for Lemmy or elsewhere, because of their bs.
Someday, when they’re confident enough that they have customer retention locked in, that methodology of bypassing will be removed.
I have 0 doubt that they eventually shut old.reddit down, or they make it so unusable that it doesn’t make a difference anymore if they did. Probably with some extensive regretful apology letter about how hard it became for the team to maintain, something about the future of Reddit moving forward and blah blah blah…
I’m sure they know and don’t care. The gain in app installs from the users of this workaround would be nonexistent.
Or just going to “view desktop site” for mobile browsers.
That still brings up the warning, but you can click past it
That’s prolly next on chopping block.
They recently blocked logins via old.reddit
They are testing. I’ve seen the option vanish and reappear over the past week.
my set up won’t let me login via normal webpage, and i aint changing that. so fuck 'em
looks like my set up is working properly at blocking google etc verification on login.
it is fucking disgusting how my login must be verified by all mega corps nowadays.
reminds of that meme with white chick on couch and 5 black dudes… take this verification BBC peasant.
I haven’t been back since the exodus
The Digg exodus…?
No no that was the OG I was talking about when Reddit did the big change to the api. It’s what made lemmy grow so much.
Me neither, at least I haven’t logged into my account to browse reddit. Occasionally I click on a Reddit because it’s the result of my web search. But I always use a private frontend called Redlib for that, LibRedirect automatically redirects all Reddit links to Redlib, it’s really useful. UntrackMe does the same on Android, Privacy Redirect on iOS.
I just switch to desktop mode and never had any problem…
What happens if you replace “www” in the URL with “old”?
They might not have the block there
VPN will be blocked.
VPN?
They’re boosting their sign up numbers by putting porn behind it. I bet it’s not even that racy, they just know that humans are motivated by something potentially titillating
Firefox+libredirect solves all your woes.
Is this just for desktop? Mobile just gives me errors about a failed secured connection.
You can use UntrackMe on Android or Privacy Redirect on iOS. Or if you are on Anndroid and use Firefox or a fork of it like Mull or Fennec, you can install LibRedirect there.
I’m on Android. Will give this a try. Thanks, bud!
I pay the developer of Now for Reddit on Android $3.99 a month and it still works. Fuck reddit.
Yeah, Ghostal is right: You’re paying reddit.
To be fair, you’re not paying the developer. You’re paying the developer to pay Reddit.
Fuck Reddit, yet you’re directly giving them money and supporting this.
It’s been like this for quite some time now.
And anytime you use a browser, you’ll always be nagged to continue viewing through browser or use their app. It comes up so obnoxiously and I swear it slows you down. They also make the viewing experience subpar unless you use the app.
…which is itself subpar.
trying to appeal to venture capitalists and investors by hiding the sketchy porn sites would be my guess, considering they got busted by cnn for underage stuff.
You can view this content in desktop mode, it’s only on mobile outside the app that you can’t view it
libreddit to the rescue
This is why they removed the apps. They want to be driving traffic through the app, and the 3rd party apps prevented that from happening.
They went from providing value to extracting it.
They made the service more shitty! We need a long word to describe that process.
Excrementize?
Long word? Pooooooooooopification
Hmm… is impoopify taken?
enfecification?
moreshittierization
I think the worst part is they entirely ignored the most painfully obvious solution of implementing a “reddit plus” or “reddit premium” or “reddit red” and just gated third party app access behind a $9.99/mo subscription. I have a hard time believing most reddit users’ ad views are worth anywhere near that much per month. But instead they decided to burn a significant sum of goodwill on questionable premises and pissed off a significant number of power users.
The feeling I got from all of the communications was that /u/spez was jealous of Apollo and just wanted to kill off Apollo. Which would explain why they took such a scorched earth approach in trying to kill all third party apps
That is basically what they did. There are a decent amount of third party apps around that work. I personally use Narwhal.
The further we get from the whole third party app debacle, the more I think this was just a way to kill the most popular apps. The ones that people said made reddit worth using. The ones that got shouted out in Apple keynotes.
Anymore it seems to be bots posting nonsense and mods banning anyone who isn’t posting porn
I just woke up to my phone alarm pretty bleary and started randomly scrolling. Ended up in this thread below.
Even half asleep, none of this look like human comms to me. The whole thread is an advertisement, with undreds of unique participants.
Fuck Reddit, delete that shit and hope for Spez to get AIDS and cancer.
This is nothing new. Theyve been doing this for quite a while now.
