I’ve recently developed a daily habit—perhaps one I should cut back on—of visiting several subreddits to keep up on things like audio production and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off; Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile phone.
Instead, a new overlay popped up, saying, “Get the app to keep using Reddit.”
There was no way to skip, bypass, or close the overlay. It did not provide any instructions or alternatives for continuing to use the mobile web version. What it did offer was a large button I could press to get the app. If I did so, the overlay told me, I would be able to “search better” and “personalize your feed”—two things I don’t care to do.
Make sure “uBlock Origin annoyances” is enabled in your filter list. Clear browser cache and cookies. Refresh the page.
I hate Reddit but there are still a few authors I follow on it.
I do have to visit the site once in a while to find some obscure solution to an obscurerer problem.
One simple solution to a simple problem is to view as DESKTOP SITE.
Apps are websites with a thousand ways to end your privacy.
The real reason Reddit banned third party apps has finally come to fruition. I still miss rif is fun.
Red reader is pretty good. There’s also patches in revanced to make rif work. But yeah, reddit is a shell of what it once was.
I still use RIF. Doesn’t work very often but I don’t read reddit that often.
Fuck reddit. Tired of hearing about that lame-ass site.
Just stop using reddit
Can’t get off it completely for specific tv show episode discussions, or for sports (nba, mlb, nfl).
Do you need those TV or sport discussions?
Everytime reddit blocks my account following regular use, I consider it them helping me to break my addiction.
I gave up on Reddit when they suspended me for the audacity to say I would dance when Fetterman kicks. After multiple suspensions for similarly bullshit reasons. The Zionists and bots have taken over.
I was permabanned when, on a story about the IDF torturing a 1 year old to get his dad to talk, I said ‘maybe the terrorists [against Israel] have a point.’
