Reddit had/has a plan to block mobile browsers in favor of their app

orientalsniper@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world – 205 points –

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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.

Pinterest has long been a member of my uBlocklist configuration.

I agree. I'm not downloading an app that siphons out data just to access a website.

Ultimately Reddit thinks they're too big to fail because they don't have any real competition right now.