Reddit has been trying many user hostile approaches and dark patterns to push its app. I’ve been terribly annoyed by this arm twisting, but I won’t use the app.

Reddit has been trying many user hostile approaches and dark patterns to push its app. I’ve been terribly annoyed by this arm twisting, but I won’t use the app. I have reduced visiting reddit because of such annoyances. On mobile, sometimes closing the tab and reopening works, sometimes changing networks works, and the most recent one I’ve seen is to request for the desktop site, which has worked consistently even though it makes reading a bit more difficult. With iOS not allowing the user to set a default app, using a third party app like Apollo as an alternative to the browser isn’t convenient either. It’s either view/use the official reddit app or continue with the browser. I wonder if browsing with the Apollo or another app (like Narwhal) also throws the same message and restricts reading on the platform.