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Finally tried the official Reddit app. It's as bad as they say.

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[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Even ignoring the ads, it’s just an astonishingly bad piece of software. It feels like it was written in a weekend by someone who’d just finished reading Programming for Dummies.

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[-] Nerii@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This is the official Reddit app? Ewwwww.

[-] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 6 points 1 year ago

They said you can patch out the ads using revanced manager, but I'm not going to try it.

[-] ruck_feddit@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I've tried revanced but I'm not tech savvy enough to figure it out. I can't even find where to download from some of those repositories 😞

[-] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 7 points 1 year ago

It's simple, really.

  • if you have Reddit app installed, uninstall it first
  • download revanced manager and install the apk. https://revanced.app/
  • find Reddit app's apk in apkmirror.com and download it
  • open revanced manager and select Patcher -> "select an application" -> storage and select the downloaded Reddit apk.
  • make sure "disable ads" is in the list of selected patches
  • run the patcher, wait until it completed
  • don't install the resulting apk right away yet. Instead, open the "..." menu on the top right of the screen and backup the patched apk
  • close the revanced manager app and open your file manager. Locate the patched apk you just backed up in the download folder, then install it.

Note that I haven't actually tested this with actual Reddit app.

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[-] Abbadon420@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'd rather take the barely functioning lemmy apps over the invasive adds of the reddit app

[-] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for saving me that install. Been loving Connect for Lemmy anyway

[-] blazera@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

why do you think sites want you to use apps so badly? To get around browser ad blockers.

[-] moodwrench@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Baconreader was a perfect app in every regard

[-] Terr@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you are on Android and have to use the official app, I recommend patching it with Revanced Manager. There's a patch that will remove the ads.

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[-] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Bagofbuttholes@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I hadn't used anything except my account logged in through RiF for 13 years. When I checked the front page as a guest I realized finally just how bad reddit is. All the posts were hot garbage surrounded by ads. I honestly don't know how people use reddit now.

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[-] marionberrycore 4 points 1 year ago

Something I liked about the official app, that no other seemed to have, was the ability to flip through posts, one to the next, without having to return to your feed. If anyone knows of a Lemmy app that can do this, let me know please!

The official reddit app would frequently not load images/posts/comments etc or even sometimes fully stop loading anything at all. I have never had these kind of issues with the third party apps, or much of any other apps of any type for that matter.

[-] Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net 3 points 1 year ago

It was absolutely unbearable to use. Had it on my phone for all of 10 minutes. Left a 1 star review and uninstalled it

[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

what really makes me sick is -- these fucking people are completely devoid of any taste or pride or care. it looks like absolute fucking garbage and they do not care; they're wealthy beyond belief WITH OR WITHOUT destroying reddit, but still, they must.

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