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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    1 year ago

    Love the absence of logic in these messages. Next time it’ll be “pay $2 to continue” or “do a barrel roll to continue”.

  • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    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?

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      1 year ago

      I’m sure they know and don’t care. The gain in app installs from the users of this workaround would be nonexistent.

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      1 year ago

      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.

      Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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          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.

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      1 year ago

      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

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      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…

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    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

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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

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    1 year ago

    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.

  • 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.