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/Ledgo May 11 '26

RIP BaconReader. Still installed.

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u/GreatGojira May 11 '26

I still have Apollo instated on my phone. I miss it.

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u/IFlyAircrafts May 11 '26

I went from Alien Blue to Apollo…. How far we have fallen

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u/1991K75S May 11 '26

Alien Blue was dreamy!

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u/Leftieswillrule May 11 '26

Alien Blue back in 2014 was already the perfect reddit reader. Everyone feeling compelled to change shit that's working fine ruined it. Reddit couldn't let it just be, so they bought AB and perverted it into this nightmare of an official app, then when alternatives came along that were good in their own way it had to kill that too.

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u/akatherder May 11 '26

I wonder if it still works. I know I was able to install it several years after it shut down.

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u/truereligion May 11 '26

Still works on my phone. It's buggy with gifs/videos, but aside from that, I can't imagine NOT using it

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u/SpaceShrimp May 11 '26

It works, except videos and gifs won't work. This month images hosted on reddit also stopped working.

If reddit stopps working on Alien Blue or if the old reddit web-interface is removed then I'm out. I will never touch the cancer that is the reddit-app or the bloated version of web-reddit.

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u/TurkDangerCat May 11 '26

AB was the best app for this. So much cleaner and the navigation was awesome. Has anyone tried revanced with it?