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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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It's funny you post this. Not more than 5 minutes ago I was trying to figure out what was wrong with Firefox on my phone. I kept trying to login over and over again on mobile and it didn't work.
A week or so ago, I really felt like reddit was nearly an S tier social media platform. It's heartbreaking to see it completely destroy itself. It's nearing Twitter in how bad it works.
Reddit doesn't want to have people browsing from Firefox because it's one of the last privacy conscious browsers available on mobile. They'd rather block you from using the service entirely than allow you to do what they call 'freeloading'—accessing the site without viewing ads or becoming infinitely trackable through the use of their data-sucking app.