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Thank you! I followed the link on my phone and WTF is this bullshit? There's a popover that tells me to either download the app or "Return to /r/popular" ...des

Thank you! I followed the link on my phone and WTF is this bullshit? There's a popover that tells me to either download the app or "Return to /r/popular" ...despite not having come from there in the first place. No way to just close it and, you know, read the content. At least, no obvious way.

prawn 5y ago
I get all those plus I've noticed a Reddit page crashing and reloading the page on mobile Safari once I've scrolled down a few comments. Every page does this without fail for me. I use those and the "Return to /r/popular" messages to remind myself that it's almost never worth my time and to go read something else.
- sharken 5y ago
  The Reddit page loads without issues on Android with the Chromium-based Brave browser. It sounds like Reddit and iOS is a really bad combination.
ajdude 5y ago
It's gotten so bad on iOS I registered an easy-to-type .com TLD and spun up a libreddit instance on it. Now I just have to double-tap "reddit" in the url and bang out 6 random characters and hit "enter". I was so happy when the new iOS came out with extension support, now I just redirect the tld to that instance automatically.
- GhettoComputers 5y ago
  Can you further explain? I jailbreak and use a redirect to the Apollo app, didn’t know the new iOS could do extensions. Amazing. old.reddit.com is much nicer too.
  - ajdude 5y ago
    Yep! If you check out the iOS 15 page and scroll about half way down, it talks about extensions: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-15/ https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-15/ I'm currently using HyperWeb[0], which does a great deal of automatic redirecting, ad-blocking, etc. (and other automation, if you get the pro option) though there's plenty of other extensions working their way into iOS support now[1]. [0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperweb/id1581824571 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperweb/id1581824571 [1] https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/21/here-are-the-best-new-safari-extensions-to-download-for-ios-15-and-ipados-15/ https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/21/here-are-the-best-new-safari-...
    - GhettoComputers 5y ago
      Thank you so much! I still haven't updated and probably won't to get an untethered jailbreak but I know this will get bigger and I will use it in the future. Wonder if webassembly will help too.
    - ciarcode 5y ago
      I think this is finally the time to switch to Safari from Chrome for me.
  - graftak 5y ago
    Apollo now has a built in safari extension to do exactly that; redirect Reddit url’s to the Apollo app.
  - Klonoar 5y ago
    I ported my extension for these redirects to the new iOS Safari extension model. You can choose to also use the old i.reddit.com interface as well it that’s your thing. https://secretkeys.io/oldr/ https://secretkeys.io/oldr/
- asdff 5y ago
  I request desktop version on mobile for reddit. The dark patterns break functionality otherwise. even pinching and zooming on old.reddit.com is better than that.
  - bennysomething 5y ago
    Also there is the "old Reddit" add-on for various browsers , auto changes the URL to old.Reddit.com Unfortunately this is currently incompatible with current Firefox on android
    - elcapitan 5y ago
      Like most useful plugins.. :/
  - Klonoar 5y ago
    I ported my extension for these redirects to the new iOS Safari extension model. You can choose to also use the old i.reddit.com interface as well it that’s your thing. https://secretkeys.io/oldr/ https://secretkeys.io/oldr/
    - rnjesus 5y ago
      oh thank god. i had ben looking for this extension for ios. just bought it, and it works great — thank you
nguyenkien 5y ago
That the new reddit. They really want people using their app, despite the website work ok.
- isoprophlex 5y ago
  ... for some value of "ok", after the horrible redesign some years ago
cma 5y ago
It's part of the Web 0.0 movement.

prawn 5y ago

I get all those plus I've noticed a Reddit page crashing and reloading the page on mobile Safari once I've scrolled down a few comments. Every page does this without fail for me. I use those and the "Return to /r/popular" messages to remind myself that it's almost never worth my time and to go read something else.

sharken 5y ago
The Reddit page loads without issues on Android with the Chromium-based Brave browser. It sounds like Reddit and iOS is a really bad combination.

ajdude 5y ago

It's gotten so bad on iOS I registered an easy-to-type .com TLD and spun up a libreddit instance on it. Now I just have to double-tap "reddit" in the url and bang out 6 random characters and hit "enter". I was so happy when the new iOS came out with extension support, now I just redirect the tld to that instance automatically.

GhettoComputers 5y ago
Can you further explain? I jailbreak and use a redirect to the Apollo app, didn’t know the new iOS could do extensions. Amazing. old.reddit.com is much nicer too.
- ajdude 5y ago
  Yep! If you check out the iOS 15 page and scroll about half way down, it talks about extensions: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-15/ https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-15/ I'm currently using HyperWeb[0], which does a great deal of automatic redirecting, ad-blocking, etc. (and other automation, if you get the pro option) though there's plenty of other extensions working their way into iOS support now[1]. [0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperweb/id1581824571 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperweb/id1581824571 [1] https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/21/here-are-the-best-new-safari-extensions-to-download-for-ios-15-and-ipados-15/ https://9to5mac.com/2021/09/21/here-are-the-best-new-safari-...
  - GhettoComputers 5y ago
    Thank you so much! I still haven't updated and probably won't to get an untethered jailbreak but I know this will get bigger and I will use it in the future. Wonder if webassembly will help too.
  - ciarcode 5y ago
    I think this is finally the time to switch to Safari from Chrome for me.
- graftak 5y ago
  Apollo now has a built in safari extension to do exactly that; redirect Reddit url’s to the Apollo app.
- Klonoar 5y ago
  I ported my extension for these redirects to the new iOS Safari extension model. You can choose to also use the old i.reddit.com interface as well it that’s your thing. https://secretkeys.io/oldr/ https://secretkeys.io/oldr/
asdff 5y ago
I request desktop version on mobile for reddit. The dark patterns break functionality otherwise. even pinching and zooming on old.reddit.com is better than that.
- bennysomething 5y ago
  Also there is the "old Reddit" add-on for various browsers , auto changes the URL to old.Reddit.com Unfortunately this is currently incompatible with current Firefox on android
  - elcapitan 5y ago
    Like most useful plugins.. :/
- Klonoar 5y ago
  I ported my extension for these redirects to the new iOS Safari extension model. You can choose to also use the old i.reddit.com interface as well it that’s your thing. https://secretkeys.io/oldr/ https://secretkeys.io/oldr/
  - rnjesus 5y ago
    oh thank god. i had ben looking for this extension for ios. just bought it, and it works great — thank you

nguyenkien 5y ago

That the new reddit. They really want people using their app, despite the website work ok.

isoprophlex 5y ago
... for some value of "ok", after the horrible redesign some years ago

cma 5y ago

It's part of the Web 0.0 movement.