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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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[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (1 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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[–] venuswasaflytrap@lemmy.ca 7 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.

[–] adamantris@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

lmao, this shitshow just keeps getting worse and worse. good thing im currently building by community sub list so eventually i never have to look back at that site

[–] Tractor7691@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] biff@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

It may be separate from the API issue, but the purpose is still the same: to monetize your eyeballs at the expense of everything else.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] moose_cannon@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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...

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[–] sphere_au@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] nattekrant@feddit.nl 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Blerenes@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago
[–] hunterhog@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Talk about mask off, lmao

[–] TenNinetythree@vlemmy.net 6 points 2 years ago

A few weeks ago, Reddit stopped the one usable mobile interface (.compact). Since then, I stopped visiting Reddit on mobile apart from a few moments of trying out miserable 3rd party apps.

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