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this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
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I'm sure we've all experienced this...
Go to example.com
"Ooops! It looks like you're on a mobile device, which we for some asinine corporate reason don't support on our desktop site! No "enable desktop site" won't make this message go away because we make an unreasonable effort to deny you access to our site. Go to mobile.example.com instead."
Goes to mobile.example.com
"Just kidding! What, you think we were actually going to let you access this without installing something? No, fuck you! This page is literally just a full screen ad for our app and has no access to any other part of platform, download it and agree to it's fifty permissions before we'll even give you a glimpse of our content!"
When you download the app, it's just a web page packaged with all the tracking software.
If you try to read comments on reddit on their website it eventually forces you to use the app to continue.
use old.reddit and it works fine
Or, you know. Just stop using reddit.
True. I go there once a week
And then that ends up giving you another reason to switch to lemmy and screw reddit.