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Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers (old.reddit.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by lynny@lemmy.world to c/technology@beehaw.org

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As quoted from the linked post.

It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To access the site you can log on via desktop, the mobile apps, or wait for the experiment to conclude.

This is separate from the API issue. This will actually BLOCK you from even viewing reddit on your phone without using the official app.

Archive.org link in case the post is removed.

https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fhelp%2Fcomments%2F135tly1%2Fhelpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access%2Fjim40zg%2F

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[–] Tempiz@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Not surprised. They need to milk every last drop of revenue from their users free content for the upcoming IPO.

[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can't you just change the browser's ID string and make it look like it's not a mobile browser?

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[–] Tractor7691@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

Wow... just "Desktop Version" or if that doesn't work quit Reddit. The app is that awful.

[–] giddy@lemmy.perthchat.org 8 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Experimenting on their own users...

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[–] venuswasaflytrap@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

Man, he's so professional. He gives answers that I'd expect a very experienced PR person to give, yet he's just a single-man operation developer.

[–] Pee_on_tech@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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[–] pogbally@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Blocked reddit.com on my router today. Sigh....looks like the end.

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[–] ArcticCircleSystem@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] zacher_glachl@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Man, they're really trying their hardest to get rid of me.

[–] howdy@thesimplecorner.org 7 points 2 years ago

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

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