A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
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- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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Yeah, this is incredibly infuriating. It’s small things like this that are pushing me to just get rid of my old reddit account.
I keep it around just to have it incase I want to talk a bit, but any time you’re not using the reddit mobile app they make it such an infuriating experience for absolutely no reason.
Honestly, this is so infuriating… Reddit is ruined at this point. I wonder why they force people to use the app so much. I know why. ADVERTS! :( I hope this site grows more (lemmygrad.ml)
yeah lemmygrad.ml rocks
I would say lemmy as a whole.
definitely
Everytime I need to use reddit (usually because a search on a specific matter gave me a reddit post as best result) I just use libredd.it instead of reddit.com.
E.g. if you have www.reddit.com/yourpost use instead libredd.it/yourpost.
I had a similar experience earlier today: i was on the web version of the Wage app (freelancing platform) and saw a banner saying they’re gonna scrap the website and force everyone to use the mobile app only
All the proprietary stuff is just getting more user-hostile by the day. like, how long before average people can’t tolerate it anymore and start switching to free stuff? i really wanna see that.
You gotta vote by leaving those platforms; It doesnt matter if you get the app, they are going down the “mine engagement data while we drive engagement” path and it leads nowhere good.
Yeah, I actually deleted my account today (I hadn’t used it in almost a year and I only opened it again cause I got a notif)
They have way more tracking and advertising options on an app and it’s harder to adblock there…
Also apps can stay active in the background etc, users just have way less control. Especially casual users will just let the apps have camera and microphone rights and whatever.
That’s annoying for sure, but you can still get around that with old.reddit.com and i.reddit.com.
The old version is still much better… there’s a browser extension that does the redirect automatically
Oooh nice didn’t know about this.
Take a look at Privacy Redirect. It supports a bunch of services, like youtube and twitter.
I’ve installed an opensource reddit app to bypass to annoying limitations and tracking when needed. Also it load 100x faster.
Redreader, 10mo of storage. Worth it.
Switch to “desktop mode” This is the shit that started me looking for alternative, its just sooooo pushy
may be try teddit.net or libredd.it
Try i.reddit.com instead, it’s reddit’s secret older mobile website.
I also like old.reddit.com, even for your mobile browser.
I’ll try it, thx!
thank you reddit for singlehandedly curing my reddit addiction with their awful redesigns lmao 🙏🙏
I’ve noticed this too. I guess I’ll live without them…
People are saying they all have seen this but… I’m on reddit mobile all the time and this is new to me. At least this way of doing it.
What I normally see is “reddit is better in the app” and two buttons, asking you to try the app or if you want to stay in the browser. It was presented kind of as a choice. Now it looks like a demand!
Yeah I always just see that as well. But I am logged in, this isn’t shown to people who are logged in.
I used to see that, but now I’m seeing what OP shared.
Been that way for a while now.
yes. however, you can still log in and then it won’t do this.
I’ll pass. My reddit account got permabanned for saying that the cop who killed Daniel Shaver deserves to die. If that’s worth a permaban but the numerous subreddits filled with bigotry can stay up on reddit, then I’m fine not having an account or using the site anymore.
yes but what if you don’t want to do that.
‘View as desktop’ solves this problem
I am not looking for a solution, but just want to teach people that this kind if anti-feature is what you get from for-profit enterprises.
You can always use a libreddit instance. Change reddit.com in the URL to libredd.it. I have a local instance and use the Privacy Redirect extension to make Google search results use my local instance instead of the actual site.
How do you get privacy redirect on mobile?
https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/01/you-can-now-install-any-add-on-in-firefox-nightly-for-android-but-it-is-complicated/
Not sure if ghacks collection contains privacy redirect though. One that does contain it definitly is nobody’s collection (ID: 15698979)