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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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To give them their due (little as that may be), this only seems to prevent users from logging in to the mobile web interface, not from viewing content as a random user from Google.
I didn't get the notice, but scrolling through a sub yesterday, I got a notification that this action (viewing a subreddit) is only available for logged in users on the app. Seriously?? Just to view a sub? I reloaded the page as desktop site, and it allowed me to view the sub, although formatted terribly. Reddit is getting much worse than I thought possible.
Which means users will log out if they want to use reddit that way, and they'll get even less traffic and data from them then before. The user-generated content they want to sell to AI training models or advertisers will just be less and less and less...
This just further incentivises my intend to delete my accounts and leave Reddit entirely if literally no account is more useable than having one.