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Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As quoted from the linked post.

It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To access the site you can log on via desktop, the mobile apps, or wait for the experiment to conclude.

This is separate from the API issue. This will actually BLOCK you from even viewing reddit on your phone without using the official app.

Archive.org link in case the post is removed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230611224026/https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/jim40zg/

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The more they push their shitty mobile app, the more people won't use it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This definitely has some Microsoft Edge vibes to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Somehow Microsoft was still quiet sucessfull with Edge in large parts of the society.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes that's true and I'm sure it isn't that bad. I just don't like the way they are trying to force their browser on everyone which is why I try to avoid Edge as much as possible. It's kind of a personal principle now. Microsoft likely doesn't care about that though since, as you said, they are successful with that technique.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use Safari on my Mac, and Google is just about as bad.

If I open the Gmail site on my iPhone in Safari, I have to click past a giant "INSTALL GMAIL APP" button to get to the teeny-tiny (no thanks, continue on mobile web) link.

That said, I use Chrome on my Windows PC and Edge is frickin' annoying. It's like when you go to a car lot just to look, and the doofus in khakis and a polo won't let you walk around in peace.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny enought i installed Edge on Linux in order to use Teams decently. But happily avoid Microsoft elswhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Teams works fine in Vivaldi or any chromium browser on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I actually don’t mind Edge now that Bing chat is a thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unless here the main user iuses the official app, including me because I forgot how good rif was.