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Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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The mobile browsing experience was a huge shitshow anyway. Randomly refreshing webpage, comments never posting or posting 5 times, expanding comments would work sometimes. They actively nuked it to make people use the reddit app. Fuck them
What is it with almost every modern website constantly refreshing until it errors out on my phone? I always just assumed it was because I blocked trackers and they just gave up trying to display their cancerous page.
Why make the mobile experience good when every single website wants you to download an app?
Well, at least you could send a link to a friend who doesn't have a Reddit account and they could view it. Now they'd be greeted with a friendly "install the app or get out" screen, and let's be real, they wouldn't install a whole app just to view the occasional link you'd send them.
I did use the desktop view + Old Reddit + no previews just fine for the past 10 years, but yeah, the mobile view is garbage with a capital "gag".