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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.

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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] 4 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] [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] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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