Submitted 3 years ago by sexy_peach@feddit.de to privacy@lemmy.ml
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People are saying they all have seen this but... I'm on reddit mobile all the time and this is new to me. At least this way of doing it.
What I normally see is "reddit is better in the app" and two buttons, asking you to try the app or if you want to stay in the browser. It was presented kind of as a choice. Now it looks like a demand!
Yeah I always just see that as well. But I am logged in, this isn't shown to people who are logged in.
I used to see that, but now I'm seeing what OP shared.
I've noticed this too. I guess I'll live without them...
Been that way for a while now.
yes. however, you can still log in and then it won't do this.
Honestly, this is so infuriating.... Reddit is ruined at this point. I wonder why they force people to use the app so much. I know why. ADVERTS! :( I hope this site grows more (lemmygrad.ml)
yeah lemmygrad.ml rocks
You can always use a libreddit instance. Change reddit.com in the URL to libredd.it.
I had a similar experience earlier today: i was on the web version of the Wage app (freelancing platform) and saw a banner saying they're gonna scrap the website and force everyone to use the mobile app only
All the proprietary stuff is just getting more user-hostile by the day. like, how long before average people can't tolerate it anymore and start switching to free stuff? i really wanna see that.
They have way more tracking and advertising options on an app and it's harder to adblock there...
Also apps can stay active in the background etc, users just have way less control. Especially casual users will just let the apps have camera and microphone rights and whatever.
'View as desktop' solves this problem
im here cause I hate reddit, and all i see are posts about reddit -> why?
thank you reddit for singlehandedly curing my reddit addiction with their awful redesigns lmao 🙏🙏
Belaptir@lemmy.ml 3 years ago
Everytime I need to use reddit (usually because a search on a specific matter gave me a reddit post as best result) I just use libredd.it instead of reddit.com.
E.g. if you have www.reddit.com/yourpost use instead libredd.it/yourpost.