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This might sound like a troll, but what’s wrong with using the app? Do you not use any apps?
by throwaway1777 6y ago
This might sound like a troll, but what’s wrong with using the app? Do you not use any apps?
- fogetti 6y agoThe real question is: what was wrong with the website in the first place?
- pokstad 6y agoI don’t use social media apps if I can avoid it. You don’t really know what information is being collected about you. Even the website collects an obscene amount of information. Combined with the fact that Reddit is full of incendiary content, it’s better to avoid being fingerprinted.
- ABeeSea 6y agoThe reason they broke the website to push the app is to get more user data to sell to advertisers and to make ad blockers harder to use.
- throwaway1777 6y agoWhat data? Now that people can block the advertising tokens on mobile as of the recent android and iOS releases I’m not sure what the difference is browsing on web vs the app?
- Nextgrid 6y agoAdvertising identifiers are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to data collection. Disabling them (which you could already do in Settings) would barely make a difference.
- throwaway1777 6y agoMust be news to Facebook who is running a campaign against apple for disabling them!
- pokstad 6y agoFacebook knows that only tech savvy users know how to dig into opt-out settings like that. When Apple makes it an opt-in, it has a huge opportunity to reduce Facebook revenue since it requires extra effort from every user to enable.
- breitling 6y agoNot OP, but...why should I need an app to browse a website?
- throwaway1777 6y agoPretty outside the scope of this discussion. There are lots of reasons apps exist, Reddit is no different than Facebook, Twitter, any social media app. Heck, Instagram and Tiktok barely even have websites.