Reddit

What the F Reddit, are you trying to speedrun the worst decisions a website can do??

They can serve you ads just fine on mobile web, that’s not it. It’s that the app let’s them track your behavior far better than the web browser.

Why would the owners of a website want to make it harder to browse their website

They can get fucked then. I'm tired of this closed internet, walled garden attitude from large social media companies. They've taken the tools that people built to make information free and available, and have locked them down for their own selfish purposes. I will not give them any more of my time.

Hey Reddit, There's a reason why there were a dozen alternatives to your official Reddit app.

I honestly hope reddit keeps fucking up like this. It takes a lot of work and a long time to drive millions of casual users away from your site.

Spoofing user agents go brrrrrr

Seriously, the data mining is going to put so much load on their servers, this is whole thing screams "management considered the technology teams assessment, but decided to go forward with [dumb project codename for fucking the platform over]"

Since Reddit removed the option to "stop asking to open in app" in mobile browseds it was clear this would be the next step.

I miss-cropped, OP for context:

Makes no difference to me.

I stopped using Reddit and I’m glad that I don’t have to worry about this kind of user hostile changes.

This will assist me further in avoiding using Reddit on my phone.

CEOs will happily restrict your freedoms for just a bit of profit, and destroy any competitors who threaten their monopoly. I don't get how anyone can defend this system in good faith.

I'm utterly shocked and appalled. /s

Doesn't surprise me a bit, before you know it they'll block the site completely when they detect an adblocker. (I already found an app that refuses to start when you block ads, so the techniques are out there)

They don't know that the primary use case for reddit on mobile is getting good answers from Google.

old.reddit will prolly be next

Reddit making dumb decisions?! Impossible.

Oh my, that is such a great idea, right on par with everything else they've been doing.

And this is where I stop using Reddit altogether. I don't want to use any app, let alone the piss poor official app. I can barely read the site in desktop on my phone. And I only access it from my phone. So there's no reason left to go there. Taking away the compact site was bad enough, taking away the entire mobile site is the last straw...

With how awful the interface is and how it spams me with DOWNLOAD THE APP TO SEE MORE, it kinda already "blocks" it for me. Browsing via Libreddit on mobile is so much better.

Not surprising, since ad blockers are a thing even on mobile these days.

lmao, they can't be serious

Companies that do this absolutely annoy me. Even Facebook doesn’t do this??

@orientalsniper

If Reddit wants to kill itself, who am I to change its mind? (I already tried and they didn't accept my feedback because the form was rigged against being completed)

If you want your app used so much, just make it snappy damn

that would be a final nail in their coffin

Too much salespeople see complaints like "your application is bad" and answer with "we're going to force it on you even more then".

Reddit's fucked

I genuinely don't get it. I fully understand pushing users towards the app. But there is going to be a portion of users who will never install your app. So at some point, you are just pissing off those users by making your product worse and worse, and they're never going to install the app anyway. I'd rather the utterly atrocious experience of browsing the laggy desktop site on my phone.

How horrible. I refuse to install apps at all if I can avoid it. I much prefer having a back button, bookmarks, being able to save images, control location access and all that. I already barely use reddit now but this would ensure that I never do.