What the F Reddit, are you trying to speedrun the worst decisions a website can do??

Hey Reddit, There's a reason why there were a dozen alternatives to your official Reddit app.

Why would the owners of a website want to make it harder to browse their website

They can serve you ads just fine on mobile web, that’s not it. It’s that the app let’s them track your behavior far better than the web browser.

They can get fucked then. I'm tired of this closed internet, walled garden attitude from large social media companies. They've taken the tools that people built to make information free and available, and have locked them down for their own selfish purposes. I will not give them any more of my time.

I honestly hope reddit keeps fucking up like this. It takes a lot of work and a long time to drive millions of casual users away from your site.

Spoofing user agents go brrrrrr

Seriously, the data mining is going to put so much load on their servers, this is whole thing screams "management considered the technology teams assessment, but decided to go forward with [dumb project codename for fucking the platform over]"

Since Reddit removed the option to "stop asking to open in app" in mobile browseds it was clear this would be the next step.

I miss-cropped, OP for context:

CEOs will happily restrict your freedoms for just a bit of profit, and destroy any competitors who threaten their monopoly. I don't get how anyone can defend this system in good faith.

This will assist me further in avoiding using Reddit on my phone.

And this is where I stop using Reddit altogether. I don't want to use any app, let alone the piss poor official app. I can barely read the site in desktop on my phone. And I only access it from my phone. So there's no reason left to go there. Taking away the compact site was bad enough, taking away the entire mobile site is the last straw...

Doesn't surprise me a bit, before you know it they'll block the site completely when they detect an adblocker. (I already found an app that refuses to start when you block ads, so the techniques are out there)

I'm utterly shocked and appalled. /s

old.reddit will prolly be next

Companies that do this absolutely annoy me. Even Facebook doesn’t do this??

Makes no difference to me.

I stopped using Reddit and I’m glad that I don’t have to worry about this kind of user hostile changes.

They don't know that the primary use case for reddit on mobile is getting good answers from Google.

Not surprising, since ad blockers are a thing even on mobile these days.

Reddit's fucked

I genuinely don't get it. I fully understand pushing users towards the app. But there is going to be a portion of users who will never install your app. So at some point, you are just pissing off those users by making your product worse and worse, and they're never going to install the app anyway. I'd rather the utterly atrocious experience of browsing the laggy desktop site on my phone.

Reddit making dumb decisions?! Impossible.

@orientalsniper

If Reddit wants to kill itself, who am I to change its mind? (I already tried and they didn't accept my feedback because the form was rigged against being completed)

With how awful the interface is and how it spams me with DOWNLOAD THE APP TO SEE MORE, it kinda already "blocks" it for me. Browsing via Libreddit on mobile is so much better.

How horrible. I refuse to install apps at all if I can avoid it. I much prefer having a back button, bookmarks, being able to save images, control location access and all that. I already barely use reddit now but this would ensure that I never do.

They've been making their mobile site hard to use and blocking most utility with a "you really need our fucking app" popup for years now. I can't imagine how they could make it worse.

Too much salespeople see complaints like "your application is bad" and answer with "we're going to force it on you even more then".

If you want your app used so much, just make it snappy damn

They have been doing a form of this for a long time. On the mobile browser, I can find individual posts, but if I try to click on the comments or anything, it just redirects me to the appstore to download the official garbage.

This is the Reddit. com front page on a mobile browser and has been for well over a year now

The writing has been on the wall for along time.

btw clear you cookies on exit, use a password manager, stay safe.