Hey Reddit, There’s a reason why there were a dozen alternatives to your official Reddit app.
I can’t think of any other website that has that many alternative apps, much less at that popularity level
I honestly hope reddit keeps fucking up like this. It takes a lot of work and a long time to drive millions of casual users away from your site.
They can get fucked then. I’m tired of this closed internet, walled garden attitude from large social media companies. They’ve taken the tools that people built to make information free and available, and have locked them down for their own selfish purposes. I will not give them any more of my time.
Right like how you can’t copy images from Pinterest, a site that populates all your Google Image searches. Like you fuckers didn’t create this content. You just got people to upload it to your site then blocked anyone else from accessing it without a membership and a share link.
I added a browser plugin on Firefox that blocks all Pinterest results from Google and DDG. Half the time they want you to log in just to see the page. Google is lame for including them in results.
I just wish Forefox for Android still supported desktop plugins without a massive hassle.
Not surprising, since ad blockers are a thing even on mobile these days.
Revanced app apparently also can patch reddit app and block ads. The thing though is that it will still collect information about you.
That’s nice, but I doubt enough people would use it to have a significant effect on Reddit’s bottom line. It does require you to download APKs, patch them and install manually, which sounds easy to tech savvy people but isn’t for the common grandma. Furthermore it’s a bit bothersome cause you have to repeat it every time there’s a new version (at least a new version that you want or that’s required for continued access) and then there are all of those with iCrap, who can’t patch apps at all.
They don’t know that the primary use case for reddit on mobile is getting good answers from Google.
