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New Reddit for my phone has decided to put a bottom popup forcing me to the app. The second old goes away I’ll never go that site again except for search resul

New Reddit for my phone has decided to put a bottom popup forcing me to the app. The second old goes away I’ll never go that site again except for search results. I ADORE that a publicly traded tech giant is so fucking stupid.

garciasn 3mo ago
Their users and those users data are the product; you are insignificant in the eyes of their shareholders.
- SV_BubbleTime 3mo ago
  You don’t seem to understand. It isn’t about me. Or even people like me. Slowly they kill themselves. It might not even be obvious to people, but they’ll slowly turn away at this or the next thing or the next one after that. I’ll be here long after Reddit at this rate. MySpace seemed like the shit until you put Facebook next to it. Does anyone think Reddit is the shit in 2026? And that is without anything put next to it.
  - rmunn 3mo ago
    The word "the" is doing a lot of work in your last paragraph. I initially missed seeing the word "the", and that changed the meaning entirely for me. Observe: > MySpace seemed like shit until you put Facebook next to it. This sentence would be claiming that MySpace was a lousy experience, but Facebook was even worse. Which would make it hard to explain why people jumped ship. > MySpace seemed like the shit until you put Facebook next to it. What you actually wrote claimed that MySpace seemed great, but then Facebook was even better. Which makes it easy to explain why people jumped ship. I don't have an actual point to make about MySpace or Facebook. (I never used MySpace, and only used Facebook once, two decades ago, because the social group I was in at the time was using Facebook as their only means of announcing events — once I moved to a different town I dropped Facebook and closed my account). I just wanted to comment about the grammatical structure of that sentence, because I thought it was fascinating. The word "the" is so often mere filler, which could be omitted and the sentence would still be perfectly understandable. (Hence why many languages, such as Russian, don't have the word "the" at all). But here's a counterexample to that general rule, a sentence where omitting one since instance of the word "the" inverted the meaning.
    - chrisweekly 3mo ago
      Yes! You're gonna love Ismo (the Finnish standup who pokes fun at quirks of the English language). This bit^1 on the word "shit" was the first I saw of him online. I've since seen him live and, I guess if you know, you know. Genius. 1. https://youtu.be/ifNEgwGACEQ?is=cJHqXIkZVqgmt4iO https://youtu.be/ifNEgwGACEQ?is=cJHqXIkZVqgmt4iO
    - prmoustache 3mo ago
      > This sentence would be claiming that MySpace was a lousy experience, but Facebook was even worse. Which would make it hard to explain why people jumped ship. I think original[1] Facebook UX was probably fine and clear enough for anyone but I would say that most people didn't jump ship: their first social media use started with facebook. And that was because FB grew bigger and faster, not because people were migrating from Myspace. Myspace has only been mostly limited to teenagers and a small fraction of music artists. Growth just slowed earlier because it never attracted many adults. It grew when people didn't have a smartphone and were not terminally online yet. It was a niche. The main difference was the paradigm/mental imagery. Myspace was about opening the door to your teenager bedroom with all the posters on the wall and stickers on the workbooks. Facebook was about publishing and reading personal diaries. [1]no idea how is the current one as I have been without account for 5 years now
      - alex1138 3mo ago
        Original Facebook was still stolen from ConnectU/houseSYSTEM and Myspace was reasonable about granular privacy controls (idk about Friendster. I imagine it was) whereas FB continually subverted it because MZ doesn't believe in privacy as a concept
  - inigyou 3mo ago
    Now Facebook is worse than MySpace ever was. A tech company dying has little to do with the quality of the product. Remember, enshittification brings in more money, not less.
- numpad0 3mo ago
  Management wanting a thing to be the core value and what the core value is are different. Tumblr didn't hold its shape long enough to hit the ground physically when its new owner did what seemed perfectly reasonable to them.
victor9000 3mo ago
UBlock Origin can clear those on FF mobile with one of the Annoyances lists
- jonathanlb 3mo ago
  If you're on iOS, you're out of luck. FF extensions aren't supported.
  - Twistyfiasco 3mo ago
    You can hide distracting items in safari to remove the popup.
    - SV_BubbleTime 3mo ago
      True. But for me, I hide the “fuck you asshole, use our app!” bottom overlay, and it does go away, but then scroll stops working!
      - foco_tubi 3mo ago
        For a while the overlay blocked touch events AND spanned the entire viewport so you couldn’t swipe to go back, trigger the address bar and toolbar to display, etc. I would have to swipe to minimize the app and then go back to trigger the toolbar to hit the back button.
      - Twistyfiasco 3mo ago
        Yeah I had that too but then it stopped blocking my scroll. I think if you keep your finger on the page after hiding the item you keep control. But holy moly yes how user hostile.
  - layer8 3mo ago
    Take a look at https://apps.apple.com/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id6449873635 https://apps.apple.com/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id6449873635.
jaredhallen 3mo ago
Requesting the desktop version of the site has solved that for me. For now.
rimworld 3mo ago
this
BoxwoodSeed 3mo ago
I won't even go there for search results, as new reddit is unusable to me. Too many clicks to get anywhere. It's quite surprising that so many people seem to have no issue with it.
MSFT_Edging 3mo ago
For years, reddit admins would lie to the faces of users saying those app redirects weren't supposed to prevent browsing the site in a mobile browser. They'd say "weird! looking into it, that shouldn't happen!". The owners of the site are hostile to the userbase. The new reddit where it doesn't let you read more than 3 comments before redirecting you to other posts is a cancer. Not to mention the ads that are somehow even more finely woven into posts than the old reddit.

garciasn 3mo ago

Their users and those users data are the product; you are insignificant in the eyes of their shareholders.

SV_BubbleTime 3mo ago
You don’t seem to understand. It isn’t about me. Or even people like me. Slowly they kill themselves. It might not even be obvious to people, but they’ll slowly turn away at this or the next thing or the next one after that. I’ll be here long after Reddit at this rate. MySpace seemed like the shit until you put Facebook next to it. Does anyone think Reddit is the shit in 2026? And that is without anything put next to it.
- rmunn 3mo ago
  The word "the" is doing a lot of work in your last paragraph. I initially missed seeing the word "the", and that changed the meaning entirely for me. Observe: > MySpace seemed like shit until you put Facebook next to it. This sentence would be claiming that MySpace was a lousy experience, but Facebook was even worse. Which would make it hard to explain why people jumped ship. > MySpace seemed like the shit until you put Facebook next to it. What you actually wrote claimed that MySpace seemed great, but then Facebook was even better. Which makes it easy to explain why people jumped ship. I don't have an actual point to make about MySpace or Facebook. (I never used MySpace, and only used Facebook once, two decades ago, because the social group I was in at the time was using Facebook as their only means of announcing events — once I moved to a different town I dropped Facebook and closed my account). I just wanted to comment about the grammatical structure of that sentence, because I thought it was fascinating. The word "the" is so often mere filler, which could be omitted and the sentence would still be perfectly understandable. (Hence why many languages, such as Russian, don't have the word "the" at all). But here's a counterexample to that general rule, a sentence where omitting one since instance of the word "the" inverted the meaning.
  - chrisweekly 3mo ago
    Yes! You're gonna love Ismo (the Finnish standup who pokes fun at quirks of the English language). This bit^1 on the word "shit" was the first I saw of him online. I've since seen him live and, I guess if you know, you know. Genius. 1. https://youtu.be/ifNEgwGACEQ?is=cJHqXIkZVqgmt4iO https://youtu.be/ifNEgwGACEQ?is=cJHqXIkZVqgmt4iO
  - prmoustache 3mo ago
    > This sentence would be claiming that MySpace was a lousy experience, but Facebook was even worse. Which would make it hard to explain why people jumped ship. I think original[1] Facebook UX was probably fine and clear enough for anyone but I would say that most people didn't jump ship: their first social media use started with facebook. And that was because FB grew bigger and faster, not because people were migrating from Myspace. Myspace has only been mostly limited to teenagers and a small fraction of music artists. Growth just slowed earlier because it never attracted many adults. It grew when people didn't have a smartphone and were not terminally online yet. It was a niche. The main difference was the paradigm/mental imagery. Myspace was about opening the door to your teenager bedroom with all the posters on the wall and stickers on the workbooks. Facebook was about publishing and reading personal diaries. [1]no idea how is the current one as I have been without account for 5 years now
    - alex1138 3mo ago
      Original Facebook was still stolen from ConnectU/houseSYSTEM and Myspace was reasonable about granular privacy controls (idk about Friendster. I imagine it was) whereas FB continually subverted it because MZ doesn't believe in privacy as a concept
- inigyou 3mo ago
  Now Facebook is worse than MySpace ever was. A tech company dying has little to do with the quality of the product. Remember, enshittification brings in more money, not less.
numpad0 3mo ago
Management wanting a thing to be the core value and what the core value is are different. Tumblr didn't hold its shape long enough to hit the ground physically when its new owner did what seemed perfectly reasonable to them.

victor9000 3mo ago

UBlock Origin can clear those on FF mobile with one of the Annoyances lists

jonathanlb 3mo ago
If you're on iOS, you're out of luck. FF extensions aren't supported.
- Twistyfiasco 3mo ago
  You can hide distracting items in safari to remove the popup.
  - SV_BubbleTime 3mo ago
    True. But for me, I hide the “fuck you asshole, use our app!” bottom overlay, and it does go away, but then scroll stops working!
    - foco_tubi 3mo ago
      For a while the overlay blocked touch events AND spanned the entire viewport so you couldn’t swipe to go back, trigger the address bar and toolbar to display, etc. I would have to swipe to minimize the app and then go back to trigger the toolbar to hit the back button.
    - Twistyfiasco 3mo ago
      Yeah I had that too but then it stopped blocking my scroll. I think if you keep your finger on the page after hiding the item you keep control. But holy moly yes how user hostile.
- layer8 3mo ago
  Take a look at https://apps.apple.com/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id6449873635 https://apps.apple.com/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id6449873635.

jaredhallen 3mo ago

Requesting the desktop version of the site has solved that for me. For now.

rimworld 3mo ago

this

BoxwoodSeed 3mo ago

I won't even go there for search results, as new reddit is unusable to me. Too many clicks to get anywhere. It's quite surprising that so many people seem to have no issue with it.

MSFT_Edging 3mo ago

For years, reddit admins would lie to the faces of users saying those app redirects weren't supposed to prevent browsing the site in a mobile browser. They'd say "weird! looking into it, that shouldn't happen!". The owners of the site are hostile to the userbase. The new reddit where it doesn't let you read more than 3 comments before redirecting you to other posts is a cancer. Not to mention the ads that are somehow even more finely woven into posts than the old reddit.