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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lynny@lemmy.world to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[–] KatieAKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Wow. Do they even understand how this looks????

[–] james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.uk 5 points 1 year ago

I can honestly say since Twitter did this I’ve hardly ever used it

[–] iuseit@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 1 year ago

Reddit is officially on a bankruptcy speedrun.

[–] alienBlues@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

They really decided to sink the boat. Such foolish level of unfriendliness to users was not seen since the time Facebook purposefully slowed their app to see how much its public was addicted.

[–] Silver_neurotic@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Bet they are working on a new mobile app that they will charge for.

[–] Mogster@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

What an amazingly hostile move. It's finally pushed me to delete the mobile app altogether.

[–] xylene@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think your link is wrong (that's the one that causes Archive.org to try a new capture). I got it working with this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230613091704/https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/jim40zg/

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[–] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The default site literally doesn't work on mobile anyway so it's not like it makes much difference.

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[–] a_statistician@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't you just change the browser's ID string and make it look like it's not a mobile browser?

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