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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fhelp%2Fcomments%2F135tly1%2Fhelpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access%2Fjim40zg%2F

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This definitely has some Microsoft Edge vibes to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 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] 2 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Teams has been a dumpster fire for me on Linux in browser or using their native client. When it does actually work (which isn't often), it makes Zoom crash. I avoid it at all costs these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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