Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, existing users opted in

Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by frou_dh on Thursday July 07, 2016 @02:33PM (#12051228)

Something I find bizarre about the current mobile reddit website is notifications at the bottom of the screen which must be dismissed, that include "you have been disconnected from the internet" and "you have been reconnected to the internet", as a consequence of Wifi changes.

You are just a damn website! I do want every website considering itself so important that it needs to subsume duties of the OS and present them with its own branding.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by PeCaN on Thursday July 07, 2016 @02:56PM (#12051374)

I downloaded a different Android browser (Lightning¹) that I set to send a desktop useragent and use that for redditing. Works nicely for avoiding reddit's impressively awful mobile site.

¹ https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by n0us on Thursday July 07, 2016 @02:57PM (#12051378)

then again more or less everything about the current mobile reddit website is bizzare

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by josteink on Thursday July 07, 2016 @03:26PM (#12051570)

From what I can tell, it's less featured and causes around 200 times the CPU load and battery-burn. And the responsiveness and response-times compared to the "heavy" desktop version... Well let's not talk about them.

I'm just not sure how they could seriously work on this, and in the end say "Yes. This is such an improvement, we will force everyone to use it".

What sort of internal regime causes that level of denial?

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by 1_2__3 on Thursday July 07, 2016 @03:39PM (#12051621)

The whole mobile interface is just shit.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by Someone1234 on Thursday July 07, 2016 @02:53PM (#12051351)

I don't follow. The banner is based on if the JavaScript on the page can communicate with the Reddit server so things like upvote/downvote/save/hide will be correctly stored.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by frou_dh on Thursday July 07, 2016 @02:59PM (#12051400)

Show an error if/when the user tries to initiate an action. It's ludicrous to have to tap to dismiss "you have been reconnected to the internet" popovers on (potentially multiple) websites.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by __derek__ on Thursday July 07, 2016 @02:59PM (#12051403)

If that's the intent, those messages are not at all specific enough to be useful to the user. If there's an issue communicating with the server, let the user know in a targeted notification that can be easily associated to the action just taken.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by digi_owl on Thursday July 07, 2016 @03:08PM (#12051460)

It if had said "connected to Reddit" nobody would blink.

But "the internet"? Straight hubris.

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