I use RSS to fetch reddit posts for subs that are not active in Lemmy.
Sometimes I need to read the comments so I’d view the post from safari. Today, I tried like 3 post and when click on view post, it would redirect me to the App Store.
When I decided to screenshot the page to make this post, it did show the post but would refuse like 1 out of 5 times.
That’s some really "spez"ial thinking process right here.
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Realize that Reddit needs more traffic and users ASAP
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Randomly block access to content
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???
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Profit!
… seriously … any site that greets me with pop-ups like “we noticed you’re using an adblocker” and stupid captchas and the like gets closed immediatly, and if I need to subscribe / join just to read what some rando on the internet wrote 6 years ago then I’m just going to look for that info elsewhere. Does spez really think that reddit is so incredible and awesome that people would WANT to log in / create an account when confronted with this bullsh*t?
Reddit has had a pop-up for years afaik on mobile, always pushing their app.
It was an option. Now mandatory.
Is OP sure it is not a byproduct of NSFW protests. As it was mandatory for nsfw subs and now some seemingly sfw are set nsfw as mods can’t mod without tools or as protest whatever your take.
Yes I am sure it’s not the case. Ironically, they show the thumbnail.
The post: https://www.reddit.com/r/LEMMiNO/comments/15d902p/just_noticed_he_made_it_as_a_citation_on_the/
Yeah, I understood they were talking about pop-ups generally but I guess not.
I take it a step further and put it on my block list.
I would nope out too.
I believe he wanted reddit to get traffic through the app to collect data and avoid ad blockers.
Unfortunately, you’re atypical. Most people do put up with all the bs that coming from all corners of the web these days. Even Reddit, with all its blackouts and protests, still has most of its users watching ads on their app. They don’t care if it’s quality content.
@deleted @justlookingfordragon most people will never make a Reddit account. That’s the typical Reddit user. Those folks will never install the Reddit app.
When Reddit makes a google search like “bicycle review reddit” stop working a huge part of Reddit’s utility will stop existing.
I don’t think spez will rate limit google bots until after Reddit’s IPO.
Correct.
Regardless of blocking google bots, google would lower their ranking once the bounce rate increases.
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So wannabe Elon Musk is copying Elon Musk and twitter?
Just keep making the platform even more unaccessible and user-unfriendly. I’m sure the users don’t mind or change platforms.
This shit basically killed reddit as a proffesional information aourcr ror me. No im not gonna log into reddit on my work pc, i just need to be looking for technical data i can find elsewhere.
Once you lose your convenience status you are doomed to die a slow death into becoming a niche old website.
Next up, Reddit renames to Y
Non reddit users who will open the reddit links for information will now stop looking at it. They won’t go through the pain of signing up. Ad revenue loses for the idiots.
It also means people trying to share posts with friends will have trouble. If someone sends me a link that insists I open in app I’ll either ask the sender to just screenshot it or pretend I looked.
I’m shocked.
This will obliterate their google ranking. Bye bye Reddit
That only happens on mobile.
Idk about others but I rarely ever browse with desktop anymore. That’s still gonna hit google rankings hard.
It seems like many of the “all desktop people” don’t know the “all mobile people” exist, and many of the all mobile people don’t know the desktop people exist. I’ve seen some discussions in PC-centric communities shocked to hear how few people even have a laptop let alone a full PC anymore. It’s like the sitting vs standing wiping people used to not know each other existed before the internet blew up about it.
What? People stand to wipe their ass?
Not sure if you’re serious or I’m wooshing, but yep. Some people apparently partly stand (not like all the way up afaik) to wipe.
Yeh serious. Ohh ok yeh I get the halfway stand sometimes.
What I wanted to say is that googles crawlers shouldn’t have any difficulties. But still if such a thing would happen on all platforms, they likely would make an exception for google. Just like many paywalled sites do. As far as I read it’s not clear how much traffic influences the ranking.
The 3d modeling software i use (SolidWorks) did he exact same thing with their user formums. They used to be an incredibly rich resource for troubleshooting problems and finding creative ways to solve design problems using their software. It was truly something special for professional users of this software. The forum was public and Google searchable.
Then, Dauuault Systems (the parent company of SolidWorks) walled it off for everyone except registered users, which I believe requires a valid license of their software. Guess what? Very few people use it anymore, especially me.
If you are using the browser on your phone just go to old.reddit.com and request the desktop site… although how long that will work for is up in the air.
spez being spez
*speX
What an insult to be a knock off a shitty person lol
I’d love to post this to r/rareinsults.
!rareinsults@lemmy.world is a place here
dew it
We have c/rareinsults.
They’ve been testing disabling the mobile site for a few months now. They were A/B testing on accounts and not letting them log in from mobile browsers for a awhile now. I don’t expect it’ll be long before they try to block all mobile devices from accessing their website except through their stupid app.
Seems like it
Reminds me of one of the biggest fuckups another company that just rebranded had recently!
Digg?
u/spez’s management “style” for sure.
On Android, if you go on any reddit post in your browser, you can’t scroll down in the comments, at least in my experience. This is probably to incentivize download and using the app, which introduces more problems. If I really need to check a reddit post out, I view it in the browser in desktop view.
