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Clicking on this link on Firefox iOS I see: A dickbar at the top telling me to open it in the app. A small section in the middle of the screen with a 50% blac

by pault 8y ago

Clicking on this link on Firefox iOS I see: A dickbar at the top telling me to open it in the app. A small section in the middle of the screen with a 50% black overlay that allows me to see about a quarter of the content with no ability to scroll or close the overlay. A double wide dickbar on the bottom asking me if I want to open the page in the app or Safari (I use Firefox). I cannot make this go away so I can see the page. Fuck Reddit.

jchw 8y ago
This actually pushed me to use a third party Reddit app that includes no ads, not even Reddit's ads. All they needed to get revenue from me was just display the damn page.
caymanjim 8y ago
Reddit is completely unusable on mobile without the app. I get that they want ad revenue, and if they were less ham-handed about it (and if their app was significantly less shitty, and with more subtle ads), I might have installed it. I'll keep using Reddit from a desktop browser, but I won't install the app. So now they get no revenue from me, when they had the chance to get some.
- atoav 8y ago
  I don’t trust a company like this enogh to install their software on my machine. If they do the design equivalent of cutting your wrists and begging for love even less so. I was the traditional target demographic of reddit, now I will go out of my way to avoid it. Just like Pinterest
- taneq 8y ago
  > Reddit is completely unusable on mobile without the app Without an app, anyway. I've been using Diode (available on FDroid, not sure about the Play store) and it's pretty good from what I've seen.
- firmgently 8y ago
  On my phone in Brave/Chrome I use desktop mode and old.reddit.com which is fine in terms of usability (completely agree that default Reddit mobile is a user-hostile embarrassment).
- 0db532a0 8y ago
  Your demographic has no bearing on Reddit’s bottom line.
  - pault 8y ago
    The demographic of people that want to view the site on a phone?
phoe-krk 8y ago
This is why I use Slide from F-Droid. It's useful, featureful, and ad-less. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.ccrama.redditslide/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.ccrama.redditslide/
- dmichulke 8y ago
  Just installed it, it comes with some 30 predefined shitty mainstream subreddits and you have to delete them by hand, which unfortunately didn't work after the first three and those three will be there again once you happen to click on refresh. That was a quick uninstall.

by pault 8y ago

jchw 8y ago

This actually pushed me to use a third party Reddit app that includes no ads, not even Reddit's ads. All they needed to get revenue from me was just display the damn page.

caymanjim 8y ago

Reddit is completely unusable on mobile without the app. I get that they want ad revenue, and if they were less ham-handed about it (and if their app was significantly less shitty, and with more subtle ads), I might have installed it. I'll keep using Reddit from a desktop browser, but I won't install the app. So now they get no revenue from me, when they had the chance to get some.

atoav 8y ago
I don’t trust a company like this enogh to install their software on my machine. If they do the design equivalent of cutting your wrists and begging for love even less so. I was the traditional target demographic of reddit, now I will go out of my way to avoid it. Just like Pinterest
taneq 8y ago
> Reddit is completely unusable on mobile without the app Without an app, anyway. I've been using Diode (available on FDroid, not sure about the Play store) and it's pretty good from what I've seen.
firmgently 8y ago
On my phone in Brave/Chrome I use desktop mode and old.reddit.com which is fine in terms of usability (completely agree that default Reddit mobile is a user-hostile embarrassment).
0db532a0 8y ago
Your demographic has no bearing on Reddit’s bottom line.
- pault 8y ago
  The demographic of people that want to view the site on a phone?

phoe-krk 8y ago

This is why I use Slide from F-Droid. It's useful, featureful, and ad-less. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.ccrama.redditslide/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.ccrama.redditslide/

dmichulke 8y ago
Just installed it, it comes with some 30 predefined shitty mainstream subreddits and you have to delete them by hand, which unfortunately didn't work after the first three and those three will be there again once you happen to click on refresh. That was a quick uninstall.