I think they are just trying to get rid of people that care at this point... Lol.

I stopped using Facebook on mobile and now I only go there occasionally on desktop to read and never post.

Reddit’s getting the same treatment.

This has been going on for at least a month. They're trying to force their app on people so they can serve them ads. Unfortunately it's just another reason not to return to that god-forsaken website. This all seems motivated to increase their IPO price by touting the number of users for their mobile app.

I literally just had an instance of opening a nsfw reddit link from a Google search and it informed me that I could only see nsfw posts in the app...

Unbelievable. Hopefully this drives more users to the fediverse.

Talk about mask off, lmao

You mean the app that a significant portion of Reddit absolutely hates? Good lord. ~Strawberry

If you want to lurk Reddit without being tracked, please use Teddit.net, they won't complain about using a mobile browser.

Tapping on a Reddit link from mobile has mostly been pretty similar to this already for me. They have had an issue with DDG mobile browser for ages, refused to show more than a page of content and kept prompting me to "get the app", which didn't seem to recognise my third-party Reddit app... So I just hit the back button. Just recently, oddly, I noticed it had started working, but I'm in the habit of ignoring Reddit links on mobile anyway now so almost never go there whether it works or not.