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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by fnord123 on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:07AM (#24373166)
The preferences require that you're logged in. If you're logged in, then reddit knows how frequently you're checking r/ChainLinkFences.
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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by mrweasel on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:11AM (#24373180)
There's a Firefox add-on that will ensure that you always see the old Reddit, even without logging in.
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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by thih9 on Friday September 04, 2020 @02:55PM (#24377840)
The problem seems bigger than user hostile UI.

If the company decided to make the UI not friendly, they will likely continue to make user hostile decisions in the name of maximising growth and profits.

In this case using addons seems like playing catch up with low chance of a long term win.

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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by read_if_gay_ on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:20AM (#24373237)
Not on mobile though...
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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by coronadisaster on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:45AM (#24373749)
On mobile and non-mobile, I use Firefox' Redirector addon to redirect all reddit links to https://ns.reddit.com/* which might be the same as old.reddit.com
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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by Dirlewanger on Friday September 04, 2020 @09:20AM (#24374670)
Then download one of the many applications that use reddit's API and enjoy it before they shut down that too.
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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by ntp85 on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:36AM (#24373693)
Well, full support for add-ons is coming to Firefox Nightly for Android soon(ish), at least.
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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by Jaruzel on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:19AM (#24373595)
... checks r/ChainLinkFences ...

NOW there's a sub that needs more love imho.

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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by lotsofpulp on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:28AM (#24373644)
Wouldn’t they know via fingerprinting your device via the device settings or IP?
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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by fnord123 on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:51AM (#24373780)
They could but seeing how good Reddit's UI is, how good do you think their log scraping is? And do they have the budget for keeping all access logs of anonymous users so they can try to line up all the ChainLinkFence enthusiasts with the people who also frequent r/MarijuanaEnthusiasts and r/WhiteMenGoneWild.
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