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You Can't Look at Porn on Any Reddit Third-Party App Now (www.vice.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Following changes to its API access, users are forced to log in on the official Reddit app if they want to view NSFW content on mobile.

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

https://old.reddit.com/ still seems to work, and that one doesn't force you to use the app or login.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The grim reaper is coming for old.reddit.com any day now.

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

It's already been leaked they're killing off everything outside of the official app in phases. Only a matter of time.

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

Leaked or rumored? The only thing I've seen officially is them saying old.reddit isn't going anywhere.

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

Source?

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

A few weeks ago when I still used Reddit via old.Reddit I was constantly getting switched to the new Reddit. It was infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Is this just speculation or is there evidence for it?

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

There was a Reddit post a while back where they confirmed the OP was part of an A/B test to disable logging in to old.reddit.com on mobile. Not a great sign.

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/

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

Speculation, but it's an inevitability. It costs money to support old.reddit, which means Reddit will certainly kill it on the day that they'll think the backlash will be small enough.

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

In January Reddit told third party app developers that there wouldn't be any API changes this year. Maybe in the future, but they definitely wouldn't charge for it this year.

Similarly, Spez said that old Reddit isn't going away.

To me, that's enough to consider it a realistic possibility.