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Re:This website has 81% battery power remaining by can16358p on Sunday December 12, 2021 @06:55PM (#29534979)
Reddit web is incredibly sluggish. I open the app to browse which is a smooth experience (putng aside dark patterns).

Same for Twitter. Maybe it's intentional to move users into the app, where ads are more likely to be actually seen (e.g. Many web users have ad blockers) and in app purchases are frictionless.

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Re:This website has 81% battery power remaining by Nextgrid on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:16PM (#29536539)
Just FYI, for Reddit there's an amazing third-party client called Apollo on iOS, and I'm sure there are others too, same on Android.
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Re:This website has 81% battery power remaining by can16358p on Monday December 13, 2021 @07:01AM (#29538803)
Yeah I have it. I actually made the in app purchase to support the developer.

I ended up going back to the official app which I think is nice, but also feel nice about financially supporting an indie developer who does a nice third party client for a (generally) awesome community.

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