Eww I clicked on a Reddit link, warning please!
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Too much salespeople see complaints like “your application is bad” and answer with “we’re going to force it on you even more then”.
The data they’re looking at when they make this decision is”people aren’t using our app as much as I’d like”.
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.
old.reddit will prolly be next
‘But they pinky promised that they wouldn’t!’ -Reddit users after the 30th, probably
Since Reddit removed the option to “stop asking to open in app” in mobile browseds it was clear this would be the next step.
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)
This will assist me further in avoiding using Reddit on my phone.
I’m utterly shocked and appalled. /s
Of course they do, in absence of the 3rd party apps that is how I would still be able to browse without ads on my phone. (If I didn‘t already switch fully to kbin and Lemmy)
I also expect one of these annoying “Disable your adblocker” pop ups for Desktop users.
This post is from early May, so probably long before they decided to kill the API (and the actual experiment could have started long before that post).
They’ve been gearing up to kill the API for months, hell they first announced they would be charging back in April (prices were announced at the end of May). This has all been a coordinated scheme.
It’s going from bad to worse on a daily basis.
Honest question: why push people to use the app specifically? What is the advantage to reddit if everyone just magically dropped the browser and switched to the app?
all the better to spy on you, my dear.
For that sweet sweet ad revenue from my understanding
Since… It’s significantly more difficult to avoid ads/data harvesting from an in-house-designed app than, say, a 3rd party browser with adblockers, or 3rd party apps that don’t run ads at all
Reddit users are product not customers.
The product is the data they mine from users. The reddit app is almost certainly loaded with telemetry and tracking.
This is data that can be sold. Likely worth more than the increased ad revenue from users who know how to block ads on their phone.
Its always worth to look at the amount of Data used between the official app and third party. Before unsinstalling i realised that sync for reddit had about 2 thirds the amount of tzraffic that the offical app uses…
Harder to block ads and tracking on an app.
Also, last time I tried it, you couldn’t use the app without being logged in, so they get more data on you than if you were able to browse anonymously.
I have been using the iOS browser extension called ‘sink it’… blocks promoted posts, kills the popup to use the app
I have been using the iOS browser extension called ‘sink it’… blocks promoted posts, kills the popup to use the app
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.
I guess they think the dwell and other telemetry info from the app will be of greater value than the ads shown on a browser.
Reddit making dumb decisions?! Impossible.
That’s unpossible!
