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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
Finally tried the official Reddit app. It's as bad as they say.
You know, I didn't start using reddit apps for awhile, and I was a late reddit comer in general. So the official app was my first and only experience, I used it for years.
Yes it is just like that.
bots reposting bots replying to bots up voting bots
and an ad
It really is, just dropped reddit for this. Not about to go back to using the official app.
Not to mention they stupidly made it so Chat auto-notifies you by default now, so if you forgot you joined any of those you'll get your phone lighting up out of nowhere like a reply all if someone says literally anything in one of those.
Their app is truly awful, and on mobile, they always try to shunt you off your browser and onto it.
You can use Revanced Manager to patch the officel Reddit app to remove all ads and trackers from it. Such a scummy platform
I haven’t been on that app for years but ouch, does it look bad
That's why I used third-party app all the time, never used their official Reddit app from day one to the day I came to Lemmy
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High quality advertisers...
For a second I thought there was a promoted post on Lemmy and I got equal parts angry and confused.
Agreed. I hate teenagers.
Looks disgusting 🤢
The ad takes up more than half the screen lmfao
It was this bad a few months ago when I used it as well. I saw almost nothing but gambling ads.
Tbh I only downloaded the official app because I didn't know there were 3rd party apps at all I only learned about the 3rd party apps when the protests started
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He gets us.
I'm gonna be honest with ya'll, even before all this 3rd party app stuff I never understood why anyone would use an app to view a fucking website. It's like thinking "yes, let me seek and purposely download spyware on my phone to have a worse user experience and see the same thing I can see in my browser without ads"
Some companies makes their apps a lot better than their website and you often get more and better features from a mobile users point of view. But I also prefer the browser because I don't want to fill my phone with apps I use only once a week or less and I can use adblocker. But it is pretty nice to be able to jump between apps instead of jumping between tabs. I have a lot of tabs open instead of downloading their app and also stuff I want to remember or pages I use often. I try to clean it up but I always have an infinity icon instead of a number for my tabs 😂 I tried using bookmarks but it is easier to find the right page as a tab (big thumbnail)
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I usually find the app and the web site are usually essentially the same on most platforms, plus most apps are designed for data farming, so to me, most apps are moot in function, and nothing but a security hole. You're going to have to do better than just not interrupting me as I come in to announce your app to get me to use it.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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