cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.
I thought this was rhe YouTube app at first glace. Damn, as a boost user I wasn’t aware how bad it is.
I’ve sideloaded a patched version of Apollo on my phone and it’s been a nicer experience (though it has limitations obviously). I am certain it will get revoked eventually. But it’s the best option for me right now. There is a way to patch Android APKs. Not sure if I should share since it technically involves a form of piracy. But if you google it, it’s definitely doable.
Better to cut the cord entirely and contribute to building a new community elsewhere.
Charge your damn phone
Hey, cut him a break - do you know how much power Reddit’s app consumes digging through all the information on your phone, watching where you pause in your doomscrolling, sending all that back to Reddit HQ, and darkpatterning you so you get more ads in front of your eyeballs?
I thought this was an advertisement and i tried to block you…
Is this bait? I don’t really get ads on the reddit app, but then again I patched it with Revanced manager.
Bruh, you seriously calling this bait because you don’t get ads even though you used a no ads patch?
Wait, so you patched it without having any idea what the patches actually changed?
I have half a brain yet did download the app to see how shitty it really is. Rip RIF.
Rif is still working for me logged out. I’ve heard it doesn’t work logged in, but I haven’t tried it recently.
I mostly used slide before and that doesn’t seem to work at all now.
Reddit offline also seems to still work for me.
Reddit “shut down” API access by disabling the ability to authenticate users. Everything else on the API is still fully functional. Of course, without being logged in it’s a read only API.
RIF is never going to pay $0.24 per 1,000 API requests. Which means Reddit isn’t going to allow those API requests to continue for long. They will shut it down even when you’re logged out.
For a second I thought there was a promoted post on Lemmy and I got equal parts angry and confused.
It’s worse then you think. That “popular” screen is what’s popular to all of Reddit determined by their algorithm, not what’s popular in the subreddits you have subscribed to. There’s no way to avoid the firehose of whatever they want to feed you, you can only go to a specific subreddit in the app instead.
It’s basically unusable for me in this state.
He gets us.
Can we stop posting Reddit’s ads here please
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Their app is truly awful, and on mobile, they always try to shunt you off your browser and onto it.
I never used it personally.
Does pi-hole block the ads?
Unfortunately not, mine doesn’t.
You can use Revanced with the official reddit app
Don’t think so. Ads are served by the same Reddit servers.
I bet Blokada does but I’m not willing to put the Reddit app on my phone to test it out.
AdGuard does
Way to pick the busiest screen. Popular? Who uses that option anyway… has that Trending panel at the top making it look like a circus. App defaults to Home, which is much cleaner. Nice you picked the absolute worst screen possible.
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.
