Following changes to its API access, users are forced to log in on the official Reddit app if they want to view NSFW content on mobile.

  • @[email protected]
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    1431 year ago

    This is the true final blow to third party apps.

    I noticed they did something similar to the mobile website. Even with appropriate content blockers there’s absolutely no way you can see sexually explicit content on mobile without their app.

    • Zectivi
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      1 year ago

      Request the desktop site. Just tried it in Firefox on Android and it no longer says to open in app.

      Or use old.reddit.com too.

      • SolidGrue
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        Or use old.reddit.com too.

        Interesting calculus here. Before the r/pocalyspe I’d have said old-reddit was on a 3 month clock to being summarily retired

        They also likely lost way more users than they anticipated through the blackouts, and might just let old-reddit be to protect their numbers until the IPO. As long as its not on default Main page, I doubt the advertisers will care. They’ll kill it when they can do so quickly and quietly

        • @[email protected]
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          91 year ago

          Last I heard, iThings weren’t allowed to have other browsers, everything just had to be a different UI on top of Safari.

          • @[email protected]
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            51 year ago

            Yes that’s true. That’s why I can confidently say any browser because they are all the same.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Wow that’s awful. I didn’t think I could hate apple anymore than I have been for the last 17 years (I still remember the time my friend tried copying my music collection to is ipod and itunes deleted the entire folder)

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        I’d recommend setting one’s own browser to automatically redirect to old.reddit.com for the occasion they might need to find that rare technical solution/see sum tiddies.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      I just did a quick test with the DuckDuckGo browser. Didn’t seem to have any issues loading a bunch of NSFW posts. You have to be signed in though, but I think it’s been like that for quite a while now.

      • @[email protected]
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        191 year ago

        old-reddit can still do it while logged out. It’s only new-reddit that requires logging in.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      They even do the same thing with SFW posts, they just say it’s “unreviewed content” or whatever.