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.
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Are they just trying to divert as much traffic as possible through their app?
That is exacly what they try to achieve, satansmaggotycumfart.
But why?
Do they somehow get more personal data that way?
I thought closing access to the API was for my own protection!
Yep. Reddit has gone full corporate.
Yeah, there is 0 way that reddit reviews even 10% of of the content, probably even 5%, if even that. There’s just no way. This is just a scare tactic to get you into their walled garden, to download their app, sign you up, and become a metric.
Yep, why would the subreddit be safer inside their own app xD
So people cant access “unrated” 18+ content they found on Google and then have people get mad that the content was NSFW or restricted.
Its essentially a “We dont know what your going to find here and dont want lawsuits” protection.
It’d be nice if Google unlisted links that bring you to “install our app or you get nothing” pages
why google?
It’s what all the normies use. If they lose a major source of traffic over it, they might stop doing it.
Can apps access your photos?
If you give them permissions. Speaking from Android. Don’t know how iOS works.
iOS is the same way. The user needs to grant access to photos.
Yep, if you request the desktop version you don’t get that redirect.
Love the absence of logic in these messages. Next time it’ll be “pay $2 to continue” or “do a barrel roll to continue”.
do a barrel roll to continue
Reddit hasn’t been that fun in a long time.
Drink a verification can to continue
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yeah, i mean, why do you think we’re using this platform right now
It is still unbelievable to me that a site as “valuable“ and large as Reddit still has content screening filters that can be avoided by simply putting three letters and a period in front of the URL. That has been a workaround for years. They literally can’t be bothered to fix that.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad it exists. But how unprofessional, right?
I’m sure they know and don’t care. The gain in app installs from the users of this workaround would be nonexistent.
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.
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.
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
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 haven’t been back since the exodus
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.
The Digg exodus…?
I mean yeah, reddit fucking sucks. That’s why we’re all here. Stop going there.
I pay the developer of Now for Reddit on Android $3.99 a month and it still works. Fuck reddit.
To be fair, you’re not paying the developer. You’re paying the developer to pay Reddit.
Yeah, Ghostal is right: You’re paying reddit.
Fuck Reddit, yet you’re directly giving them money and supporting this.
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
I just switch to desktop mode and never had any problem…
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.
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
They went from providing value to extracting it.
They made the service more shitty! We need a long word to describe that process.
Hmm… is impoopify taken?
enfecification?
moreshittierization
Excrementize?
Long word? Pooooooooooopification
Dear Spez: I AM NEVER EVER GOING TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FUCKING APP
Dear Steve.
He ain’t ever going to read that. Can we stop talking about our ex yet?
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.
This is nothing new. Theyve been doing this for quite a while now.
The only decent way to browse Reddit nowadays is a private frontend called Redlib. You can use the LibRedirect browser extension or the UntrackMe Android app to automatically redirect all Reddit links to Redlib. It’s better for privacy, since you don’t need to access Reddit directly and thus your information isn’t exposed, it works without JavaScript, it doesn’t have ads or trackers and works behind a VPN or Tor. It also lets you view NSFW content without any limitations.
