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Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by biscuit to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 137 points 2 weeks ago (62 children)

My theory is that they realize that a significant number of power users on the site are still using old.reddit.com, so they are keeping it going because getting rid of it would turn the website into a ghost town. They will continue to push their app and new website because they can push more advertising through it to the people that are just there to consume.

[–] biscuit 2 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

they realize that a significant number of power users on the site are still using old.reddit.com

Wonder how they feel about people like me, who use a third party Reddit app on Android? They get no ad revenue from me, and I don't contribute either.

[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

how are you still doing that, I thought they all shut down like three years ago with the whole API debacle

[–] biscuit 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Reddit blocked third party apps but they didn't block personal-use API access. With the help of some apk-editing tools that I won't mention here, you could import your own API key into a third party apps and continue using it fully (including posting and commenting). I'm using Reddit Sync still.

My API key still works, but my understanding is Reddit recently blocked the generation of new keys. So at some point my key will probably die too. At that point, that's the end of Reddit for me.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

wait recently blocked? did they end up reverting the change they did back when the API thing was done? that was one of the things they did then was restrict API key generation

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