Help…did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access, or am I missing a setting?
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It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To...

As quoted from the linked post.

It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To access the site you can log on via desktop, the mobile apps, or wait for the experiment to conclude.

This is separate from the API issue. This will actually BLOCK you from even viewing reddit on your phone without using the official app.

Archive.org link in case the post is removed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230611224026/https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/jim40zg/

    • BitOneZero@beehaw.org
      8·
      1 year ago

      That’s probably a big part. Web browsers can do ad blocking. Within the official Reddit app that’s way more difficult.

      • j4k3@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        It is not super difficult to do the same type of blocking with a router on software like OpenWRT. This can easily block all of the 3rd party ads type junk. The thing I can’t quite figure out is what they are able to do on their server connection. It seems like they are able to setup their own proxy and impact other traffic on the same network when they should be far more sandboxed, but I can’t prove that.

        Someone REALLY needs to make fully open source and transparent mobile hardware and put Qualcomm under the bus… on a high speed looping track. We have no idea what is really possible under the hood on any existing mobile device. Both the processor and the modem are mostly black boxes. Even with the best custom ROMs like Graphene OS, the whole premise is based on developing a verifiable chain of trust on top of untrusted hardware we don’t control.

        The thing people fail to put together is that this is an issue of ownership; theft of ownership. Now we are seeing the first layers of neo digital feudalism emerging as a result of the theft.

        • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          It is not super difficult to do the same type of blocking with a router on software like OpenWRT.

          that is not something average people even know about, or would have the skills to attempt. not even close.

    • 42triangles@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Users can block those on desktop without issue. On mobile it’s a bit harder so most people I know don’t even if they use ublock or something on their PCs/laptops (though that is of course only anecdotal).

      So if anything if that was the issue they should’ve shut off support for the desktop version LOL /s

      • 0x1C3B00DA@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s not as common to push users to apps on desktop, but its a tried-and-true practice on mobile. I’m sure companies would do it if they could, but app stores and app lockin aren’t as strong on desktop as on mobile