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This happened on my device and I just said fuck it back to Lemmy.
More nails to the coffin
They are doingeverything exactly how elon did on Twitter
Such genius and innovation. He added not one, but three pop-ups telling you to log in and allow notifications. Have you ever seen such naked brilliance before? No one besides him has had the courage... except for maybe every malware site webmaster in 2002. He also sold a blue checkmark for $8! Like how does one human have such an unlimited well of brilliance?
They've been making their mobile site hard to use and blocking most utility with a "you really need our fucking app" popup for years now. I can't imagine how they could make it worse.
Too much salespeople see complaints like "your application is bad" and answer with "we're going to force it on you even more then".
The data they’re looking at when they make this decision is”people aren’t using our app as much as I’d like”.
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?
Harder to block ads and tracking on an app.
Also, last time I tried it, you couldn't use the app without being logged in, so they get more data on you than if you were able to browse anonymously.
Reddit users are product not customers.
The product is the data they mine from users. The reddit app is almost certainly loaded with telemetry and tracking.
This is data that can be sold. Likely worth more than the increased ad revenue from users who know how to block ads on their phone.
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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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 gearing up to kill the API for months, hell they first announced they would be charging back in April (prices were announced at the end of May). This has all been a coordinated scheme.
It's going from bad to worse on a daily basis.
I have been using the iOS browser extension called ‘sink it’.. blocks promoted posts, kills the popup to use the app
I have been using the iOS browser extension called ‘sink it’.. blocks promoted posts, kills the popup to use the app
If im viewing reddit on mobile it's through firefox mobile with ublock and that will not change.
Now they're conducting experiments on us without our consent? Is there no low they won't stoop to?
Testing limited roll outs is actually really really common in large internet sites/apps. Done right, you'd never know.
The official Reddit app doesn't work on older phones, guess I'm out of luck. I can afford a new phone, but I don't feel it's worth it to buy a new phone just for one app.
It's garbage anyway, so you're better off.
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