Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers

lynny@lemmy.world to Technology@beehaw.org – 182 points –
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As quoted from the linked post.

It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To access the site you can log on via desktop, the mobile apps, or wait for the experiment to conclude.

This is separate from the API issue. This will actually BLOCK you from even viewing reddit on your phone without using the official app.

Archive.org link in case the post is removed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230611224026/https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/jim40zg/

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What awful timing to run this experiment.

Good news is best delivered piece by piece, bad news all at once.

The outrage against Reddit is already at its peak, may as well use it as cover to do more anti-user stuff.

My reddit account currently only exists to tell others about Lemmy

Indeed, Reddit half died for me when they did the redesign, and I only used RiF after that, now its just dead to me.