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My favorite Reddit UX scam is that you tap on comments to collapse them along with their children, UNLESS they’re an ad that masks itself exactly like a comment

by sssilver 11mo ago

My favorite Reddit UX scam is that you tap on comments to collapse them along with their children, UNLESS they’re an ad that masks itself exactly like a comment in which case you tap it with the intent of collapsing it, but instead you inadvertently increase RDDT shareholder value (at the expense of the time you waste closing the webview)!

anoncow 11mo ago
If I accidentally did it Adsense would ban me.
- webspinner 11mo ago
  Do it anyway! Then you have a case against them.
frank_nitti 11mo ago
Not to mention that, at least on the iOS app, the button to close an ad is in a totally different place than the rest of the UI screens, which is always in the top-left of the screen. A small “X” is placed in the middle-left of the ad image, to make you spend an extra second finding it, which I would assume they are happy to report as a user engagement metric to their advertisers.
amarcheschi 11mo ago
I think it's possible to remove ads with reddit revanced
spicybright 11mo ago
I refuse to use reddit with it's modern UI. Once old.reddit.com dies I'm hanging up my spurs
- Loughla 11mo ago
  I left when they killed 3rd party app access. Honestly even the curated subs I was a part of were pretty toxic or echo-chambery now that I've had time to look back
  - anukin 11mo ago
    The biggest problem is that Lemmy is no substitute for Reddit. Majority of it is run by tankies and people professing extreme left views.
    - nekusar 11mo ago
      "Extreme left" said by someone likely from the USA is slightly left-of-center basically anywhere else. The USA democrats and "left" have been overton window'ed so hard that a actual democratic socialist, Mamdani, is compared to being a communist. https://nypost.com/cover/november-5-2025/ https://nypost.com/cover/november-5-2025/ There's also hundreds of Lemmy federated servers. I'm sure some are actual communist. But there's plenty for all walks of life. And it's like Mastodon in that regard. And honestly, if "killing SNAP and other public benefits for poor people" is capitalist, I want nothing to do with that. That is completely ethically bankrupt. Doubly so being one of the richest countries in the world. Absolutely 0 people should be starving. And I'd also say that 0 people should be involuntarily homeless. (some may want to, and choose to be vagabonds and travel. they should have that right! but they should also be able to choose to have a home.)
      - HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
        The OP says tankies. Those kinds of extreme left are extreme even by non-USA standards. A European-style democratic socialist like Mamdani would be, one hopes, to the right of them. Tankies were largely forced out of European mainstream parties after the shocks of 1937, 1956 and 1968.
        skinnymuch 11mo ago
        A better way to think of it is that the western “left” isn’t part of the global left. Using tankie unironically is a classic example.
        Sammi 11mo ago
        The massive sympathy for Russia in the Ukraine war among the far left makes it pretty clear that tankies are alive and kicking.
- chistev 11mo ago
  Where would you go to? Hacker new?
- Fuhrmanator 11mo ago
  I built my private version of Infinity for Android. The steps were 90% automated. They were in a Reddit thread like this one (I just pasted the first thing I found now), although I don't know if the build process still works. https://www.reddit.com/r/Infinity_For_Reddit/comments/1izm7cb/how_to_build_infinity_for_reddit_with_my_own_api/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Infinity_For_Reddit/comments/1izm7c... -- you have to side-load the app, which is a little tricky because you have to load it onto your phone. I think put it on a private Google Drive. Maybe similar solutions exist for iOS, but maybe the side-loading is not as easy? Anyway, on Windows/Chrome I use uBlock Origin and never see any ads in Reddit online. There was a lot of drama about reddit selling out in 2023 (I was sad to see Infinity die), but there are tech solutions to avoid its enshittification.

anoncow 11mo ago

If I accidentally did it Adsense would ban me.

webspinner 11mo ago
Do it anyway! Then you have a case against them.

frank_nitti 11mo ago

Not to mention that, at least on the iOS app, the button to close an ad is in a totally different place than the rest of the UI screens, which is always in the top-left of the screen. A small “X” is placed in the middle-left of the ad image, to make you spend an extra second finding it, which I would assume they are happy to report as a user engagement metric to their advertisers.

amarcheschi 11mo ago

I think it's possible to remove ads with reddit revanced

spicybright 11mo ago

I refuse to use reddit with it's modern UI. Once old.reddit.com dies I'm hanging up my spurs

Loughla 11mo ago
I left when they killed 3rd party app access. Honestly even the curated subs I was a part of were pretty toxic or echo-chambery now that I've had time to look back
- anukin 11mo ago
  The biggest problem is that Lemmy is no substitute for Reddit. Majority of it is run by tankies and people professing extreme left views.
  - nekusar 11mo ago
    "Extreme left" said by someone likely from the USA is slightly left-of-center basically anywhere else. The USA democrats and "left" have been overton window'ed so hard that a actual democratic socialist, Mamdani, is compared to being a communist. https://nypost.com/cover/november-5-2025/ https://nypost.com/cover/november-5-2025/ There's also hundreds of Lemmy federated servers. I'm sure some are actual communist. But there's plenty for all walks of life. And it's like Mastodon in that regard. And honestly, if "killing SNAP and other public benefits for poor people" is capitalist, I want nothing to do with that. That is completely ethically bankrupt. Doubly so being one of the richest countries in the world. Absolutely 0 people should be starving. And I'd also say that 0 people should be involuntarily homeless. (some may want to, and choose to be vagabonds and travel. they should have that right! but they should also be able to choose to have a home.)
    - HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
      The OP says tankies. Those kinds of extreme left are extreme even by non-USA standards. A European-style democratic socialist like Mamdani would be, one hopes, to the right of them. Tankies were largely forced out of European mainstream parties after the shocks of 1937, 1956 and 1968.
      - skinnymuch 11mo ago
        A better way to think of it is that the western “left” isn’t part of the global left. Using tankie unironically is a classic example.
        Sammi 11mo ago
        The massive sympathy for Russia in the Ukraine war among the far left makes it pretty clear that tankies are alive and kicking.
chistev 11mo ago
Where would you go to? Hacker new?
Fuhrmanator 11mo ago
I built my private version of Infinity for Android. The steps were 90% automated. They were in a Reddit thread like this one (I just pasted the first thing I found now), although I don't know if the build process still works. https://www.reddit.com/r/Infinity_For_Reddit/comments/1izm7cb/how_to_build_infinity_for_reddit_with_my_own_api/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Infinity_For_Reddit/comments/1izm7c... -- you have to side-load the app, which is a little tricky because you have to load it onto your phone. I think put it on a private Google Drive. Maybe similar solutions exist for iOS, but maybe the side-loading is not as easy? Anyway, on Windows/Chrome I use uBlock Origin and never see any ads in Reddit online. There was a lot of drama about reddit selling out in 2023 (I was sad to see Infinity die), but there are tech solutions to avoid its enshittification.