They can serve you ads just fine on mobile web, that’s not it. It’s that the app let’s them track your behavior far better than the web browser.
Too much salespeople see complaints like “your application is bad” and answer with “we’re going to force it on you even more then”.
For anyone wondering, you can still use it on mobile by changing the address to old.reddit.com in your mobile browser. So its still accessible on all mobile devices, just not on www.reddit.com.
They said they are going to kill .old soon
Have they actually said it? I’ve always assumed .old wouldn’t be around forever. I’m sort of surprised it’s lasted as long as it has.
Spez said that they don’t have plans to shut down old.reddit.com anytime soon, so I guess July 31st is the last day.
You’re probably right, he’s speed running turning Reddit into an IPO so fast he’s destroyed everything in under a month. Not to mention rolling back comment/account deletions to keep the comments up, he clearly doesn’t have a long term plan. This looks like a speedy cash out like he’s about to be caught red handed.
Companies that do this absolutely annoy me. Even Facebook doesn’t do this??
Are there third party Facebook apps?
I use Friendly social Browser on Android. It’s basically a wrapper for the mobile website and allows me to sort posts the way I want them, which is important to me. I don’t want the algorithm. I’ve used it for years. It works with quite a few different social media sites and doesn’t allow all the tracking. I have the Plus version and I’m allowed to turn off ads on both the app and Facebook and block “stories” and other silliness I don’t care for. I don’t know if the free version does all of that.
Reddit can truly get fucked. Can’t wait to delete all my Reddit accounts on July 1st. I’m holding out 1/100000th hope that they will come to their senses on June 30th.
Reddit has done a great job un-aliving itself.
