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submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

Following changes to its API access, users are forced to log in on the official Reddit app if they want to view NSFW content on mobile.

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[-] trifictional@lemmy.world 144 points 1 year ago

This is the true final blow to third party apps.

I noticed they did something similar to the mobile website. Even with appropriate content blockers there’s absolutely no way you can see sexually explicit content on mobile without their app.

[-] Zectivi@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Request the desktop site. Just tried it in Firefox on Android and it no longer says to open in app.

Or use old.reddit.com too.

[-] Anders429@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago

Or don't use it.

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or use old.reddit.com too.

Interesting calculus here. Before the r/pocalyspe I'd have said old-reddit was on a 3 month clock to being summarily retired

They also likely lost way more users than they anticipated through the blackouts, and might just let old-reddit be to protect their numbers until the IPO. As long as its not on default Main page, I doubt the advertisers will care. They'll kill it when they can do so quickly and quietly

[-] trifictional@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Reddit doesn’t respect that on iPhones through any browser.

So anti consumer it hurts.

[-] zurohki@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Last I heard, iThings weren't allowed to have other browsers, everything just had to be a different UI on top of Safari.

[-] trifictional@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yes that’s true. That’s why I can confidently say any browser because they are all the same.

[-] Syrc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Desktop Browser seems to be able to bypass some forced restrictions Safari has. Doesn't seem to work for Reddit, though.

[-] Smallletter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wow that's awful. I didn't think I could hate apple anymore than I have been for the last 17 years (I still remember the time my friend tried copying my music collection to is ipod and itunes deleted the entire folder)

[-] iDunnoBro@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I'd recommend setting one's own browser to automatically redirect to old.reddit.com for the occasion they might need to find that rare technical solution/see sum tiddies.

[-] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 14 points 1 year ago

I use this plugin to fetch the last known stored version of a given page in the Wayback Machine: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-to-wayback-machine/

Really handy to get a read-only version of useful threads that have been since removed in protest or put in a private subreddit. Plus it doesn't give them any traffic, as it uses an external proxy.

[-] iDunnoBro@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing! I'll definitely be using that.

[-] solidgrue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's a false dichotomy. Tiddies ARE a technical solution for feeding babies and attracting mates.

....or so I hear?

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