It's going from bad to worse on a daily basis.
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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Honest question: why push people to use the app specifically? What is the advantage to reddit if everyone just magically dropped the browser and switched to the app?
For that sweet sweet ad revenue from my understanding
Since... It's significantly more difficult to avoid ads/data harvesting from an in-house-designed app than, say, a 3rd party browser with adblockers, or 3rd party apps that don't run ads at all
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good thing I have a plan to block reddit :-)
I only use reddit in 2 places. At work, where I am looking for an answer to something, I am not logged in and blocking ads. And the other is at home when I am winding down for the night. I use third party apps because the first party app sucks. I will just stop scrolling at home where I am logged in and they are gathering my data. And I will avoid reddit for answers when I am at work in favor of other forums.
I tried reddit with revanced, but even without ads the app is still garbage. Scrolling is laggy, simple gestures are non existent, I can't even copy a text by pressing on it.
Did you try sync ReVanced?
Of course they do, in absence of the 3rd party apps that is how I would still be able to browse without ads on my phone. (If I didn‘t already switch fully to kbin and Lemmy)
I also expect one of these annoying "Disable your adblocker" pop ups for Desktop users.
This post is from early May, so probably long before they decided to kill the API (and the actual experiment could have started long before that post).
They've been doing this on Android for years already. I used sync. If I googled something and clicked on reddit, it would initially open in browser, then I'd get a pop up saying I needed to open the official app to continue reading on mobile.
This happened to me for years