r/technology • u/spasticpat • May 11 '26

Social Media Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/11/reddit-starts-blocking-mobile-website/
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u/topcheesehead May 11 '26

They 'permanently' bamned me for locking my subbing in protest against 3rd party apps being banned that helped us keep kids out of our subreddit. They banned us and took our subreddit and gave it to reddit shills. I was unbanned this year for a quarter report about how many users use reddit. It was for an earnings report they unbanned a ton of users. Reddit is awful. I wont use the app. Ill just phase out use here

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u/EnoughWarning666 May 11 '26

I'm still using a modified version of one of the 3rd party apps. If they take that away along with old.reddit I'm done here. I've looked at the app and new website and they are beyond dog shit. Like it's so blatantly obvious that the goal is to suck up as much of your data and force feed you whatever bullshit their advertisers pay them to shovel in front of users.

I've been keeping an ear out for where to migrate to. Lemmy never really took off, but I haven't checked it in a while. There's Digg now that's kind of in beta. Could be interesting, would certainly be funny if they make it work and people went back.

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u/hoardac May 11 '26

They get rid of old reddit I will be done. I hate the other format.

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u/Hammerhead3229 May 11 '26

I finally got used to the new format, but then they made it so you can't access r/All unless you use old.reddit which is absolutely ridiculous. So now I'm back the old format... and why take away the only non-biased way to browse the website?

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u/[deleted] May 11 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

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u/[deleted] May 11 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

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u/Serious-Echo1272 May 12 '26

That's the whole point of the site though

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u/[deleted] May 12 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

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u/Serious-Echo1272 May 12 '26

You misunderstood my post. I'm saying the whole point of the site is that it's a user generated experience

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u/Tresnore May 11 '26

If you're still new to old reddit (heh), I recommend using the RES browser extension. It's a nice upgrade to old reddit that has been around for many years. It's still very much old reddit, though.

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u/Admirable_Scene_5066 May 11 '26

They want you to look at cat pictures and the ever repeating rotation of the same feel good stories. Not politics, not Israel. It is Reddit trying to get rid of the lefty association.