I don’t use Reddit anymore, but I wanted to search something that I couldn’t find anywhere. This is what I saw. After killing all the other apps, Reddit now is trying to force us to use their own spyware app.
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It will get rid of that
Rdx.overdevs.com is another mobile frontend that works well
This is why they removed the apps. They want to be driving traffic through the app, and the 3rd party apps prevented that from happening.
They went from providing value to extracting it.
I think the worst part is they entirely ignored the most painfully obvious solution of implementing a “reddit plus” or “reddit premium” or “reddit red” and just gated third party app access behind a $9.99/mo subscription. I have a hard time believing most reddit users’ ad views are worth anywhere near that much per month. But instead they decided to burn a significant sum of goodwill on questionable premises and pissed off a significant number of power users.
The feeling I got from all of the communications was that /u/spez was jealous of Apollo and just wanted to kill off Apollo. Which would explain why they took such a scorched earth approach in trying to kill all third party apps
That is basically what they did. There are a decent amount of third party apps around that work. I personally use Narwhal.
The further we get from the whole third party app debacle, the more I think this was just a way to kill the most popular apps. The ones that people said made reddit worth using. The ones that got shouted out in Apple keynotes.
Enshittification
The only decent way to browse Reddit nowadays is a private frontend called Redlib. You can use the LibRedirect browser extension or the UntrackMe Android app to automatically redirect all Reddit links to Redlib. It’s better for privacy, since you don’t need to access Reddit directly and thus your information isn’t exposed, it works without JavaScript, it doesn’t have ads or trackers and works behind a VPN or Tor. It also lets you view NSFW content without any limitations.
They’ve had this for a while. The cheat code is to change the url to old reddit.
Or just “request desktop website”.
On android, I would recommend using Stealth or Geddit to browse reddit. Stealth has a mode where it scrapes old.reddit.com (and bypasses the API), and Geddit uses the RSS feed to pull content instead of API.
Downside is neither app will let you interact, but I don’t have any desire to generate content for reddit anyways.
Those apps’ days are numbered I’m sure
They’ve been working since the API price change, so nearly a year now.
RedReader also still works due to their disability stuff.
The Enshitification will continue until moral improves.
After morale improves, enshittification will accelerate.
I think what’s even more annoying is when you actually do use the app, every community you visit, it pops up a notification that says “turn on notifications so you don’t miss updates from this community!”
Easy fix is to update the url to use “old.reddit.com” rather than the base “www.reddit.com”.
That sends you to a version of the site without a bunch of the crap.
any idea how reddit keeps banning my alt accounts ? I am suspecting chrome broswser is complicit.
Many ways to detect this, but let’s start with the basics: Are you using the same Ip address?
Well yes.
Take a break from Reddit, uninstall all apps, clear cookies off all your browsers for reddit.com, wait a few weeks for your IP address to change, then make a new account.
no offense but who the fuck cares, you know what i mean? that shithole can enjoy the hell it has consigned itself to.
It’s been like this for quite some time now.
And anytime you use a browser, you’ll always be nagged to continue viewing through browser or use their app. It comes up so obnoxiously and I swear it slows you down. They also make the viewing experience subpar unless you use the app.
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That’s prolly next on chopping block.
They recently blocked logins via old.reddit
I have 0 doubt that they eventually shut old.reddit down, or they make it so unusable that it doesn’t make a difference anymore if they did. Probably with some extensive regretful apology letter about how hard it became for the team to maintain, something about the future of Reddit moving forward and blah blah blah…
Or just going to “view desktop site” for mobile browsers.
I’m sure they know and don’t care. The gain in app installs from the users of this workaround would be nonexistent.
Dear Spez: I AM NEVER EVER GOING TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FUCKING APP
Dear Steve.
He ain’t ever going to read that. Can we stop talking about our ex yet?
Who cares?
People whose web searches turn up this.
Firefox+libredirect solves all your woes.
Is this just for desktop? Mobile just gives me errors about a failed secured connection.
You can use UntrackMe on Android or Privacy Redirect on iOS. Or if you are on Anndroid and use Firefox or a fork of it like Mull or Fennec, you can install LibRedirect there.
I’m on Android. Will give this a try. Thanks, bud!
