I don’t use Reddit anymore, but I wanted to search something that I couldn’t find anywhere. This is what I saw. After killing all the other apps, Reddit now is trying to force us to use their own spyware app.
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Oh no! Our poor sensitive little eyes might be offended by something we see! I need a nanny-state to go through everything I have access to so I don’t get confused!
They’ve had this for a while. The cheat code is to change the url to old reddit.
Or just “request desktop website”.
Are they just trying to divert as much traffic as possible through their app?
Yep, if you request the desktop version you don’t get that redirect.
That is exacly what they try to achieve, satansmaggotycumfart.
But why?
Do they somehow get more personal data that way?
I thought closing access to the API was for my own protection!
Yeah, there is 0 way that reddit reviews even 10% of of the content, probably even 5%, if even that. There’s just no way. This is just a scare tactic to get you into their walled garden, to download their app, sign you up, and become a metric.
Yep, why would the subreddit be safer inside their own app xD
So people cant access “unrated” 18+ content they found on Google and then have people get mad that the content was NSFW or restricted.
Its essentially a “We dont know what your going to find here and dont want lawsuits” protection.
It’d be nice if Google unlisted links that bring you to “install our app or you get nothing” pages
why google?
It’s what all the normies use. If they lose a major source of traffic over it, they might stop doing it.
google search is mostly shit without a private frontend like startpage (shut up bot, i know they’re owned by an advertising company)
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Can apps access your photos?
If you give them permissions. Speaking from Android. Don’t know how iOS works.
iOS is the same way. The user needs to grant access to photos.
Yep. Reddit has gone full corporate.
yeah, i mean, why do you think we’re using this platform right now
no offense but who the fuck cares, you know what i mean? that shithole can enjoy the hell it has consigned itself to.
And like, why are people surprised it’s only getting worse? Of course it is, we knew long ago the removal of 3rd party app was the beginning of the master plan to monetize our communities.
They’re surprised because they’ve already gotten used to the previous thing.
the beginning of the master plan to monetize our communities.
I think it was closer to the middle of the plan.
use old.reddit.com allegedly it lets you through if you click a “yes i am 18” button
I don’t think it have that warning for “Unreviewed content”. Sure for nsfw
Build yourself Infinity client with own api key, it takes ~5-10 minutes and can be done from phone https://colab.research.google.com/drive/13AE8RvjnCfuBJGaACEqxeBIMo33_l-Sc?usp=sharing
The Enshitification will continue until moral improves.
After morale improves, enshittification will accelerate.
On iOS Safari if you “Request Desktop Website” you can get around this. I’m sure something similar you can do in your android web browser.
Works to get around the mature content warning overlay. Or use old.reddit.com I think
No need for safari, I use that option in chrome and firefox. I created an account just for lurking and use desktop mode and it “works”, at least it stopped bothering to get the app or restricting content because I wasn’t logged in
On android, I would recommend using Stealth or Geddit to browse reddit. Stealth has a mode where it scrapes old.reddit.com (and bypasses the API), and Geddit uses the RSS feed to pull content instead of API.
Downside is neither app will let you interact, but I don’t have any desire to generate content for reddit anyways.
Those apps’ days are numbered I’m sure
They’ve been working since the API price change, so nearly a year now.
RedReader also still works due to their disability stuff.
I mean yeah, reddit fucking sucks. That’s why we’re all here. Stop going there.
You can open as a desktop page and it works… Or you know… Old.reddit
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I’m sure they know and don’t care. The gain in app installs from the users of this workaround would be nonexistent.
Don’t think of it as them being unprofessional, think of it as them having a safety valve to relieve the pressure of some people wanting to leave Reddit for Lemmy or elsewhere, because of their bs.
Someday, when they’re confident enough that they have customer retention locked in, that methodology of bypassing will be removed.
Or just going to “view desktop site” for mobile browsers.
That still brings up the warning, but you can click past it
I have 0 doubt that they eventually shut old.reddit down, or they make it so unusable that it doesn’t make a difference anymore if they did. Probably with some extensive regretful apology letter about how hard it became for the team to maintain, something about the future of Reddit moving forward and blah blah blah…
the thing is, the one and only purpose of this dialog is to increase metrics of engagement, like how many users download the app. they don’t need to convert every mobile web user to an app user immediately. as long as that dialog is driving the engagement metrics apps, it is doing its work correctly. obviously at some point there will stop increasing engagement, so the middle managers will turn and try to squeeze a bit more by removing the loopholes, but it is not an urgent problem. it even might be intentional so they can squeeze a bit more later
the one that i am surprised at how bad it is is Twitter, that is still hosted at twitter.com . even going to x.com just redirects to twitter.com . i assume that there’s some major engineering problem that is preventing them from switching, but still, it has been almost 10 months and the clown at chief really pushed for the rebranding
That’s prolly next on chopping block.
They recently blocked logins via old.reddit
They are testing. I’ve seen the option vanish and reappear over the past week.
my set up won’t let me login via normal webpage, and i aint changing that. so fuck 'em
looks like my set up is working properly at blocking google etc verification on login.
it is fucking disgusting how my login must be verified by all mega corps nowadays.
reminds of that meme with white chick on couch and 5 black dudes… take this verification BBC peasant.
They have done this for a long time now.
