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Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] arc99@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Using an app means more bloat, more ads, more notifications, more forced engagement and more tracking. Since the site very clearly works through a mobile browser there is no technical reason for doing this. It is about forcing people to doom scroll this shit rather than check in from time to time.

[–] oldwoodenship@lemmus.org 2 points 13 hours ago

Yeah I’m not using their app. I don’t want my information and data harvested so they can learn how to better sell useless shit to people.