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lynny Jun 11, 2023

Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers

Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers - Lemmy.world

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 [http://Archive.org] link in case the post is removed. https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fhelp%2Fcomments%2F135tly1%2Fhelpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access%2Fjim40zg%2F [https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fhelp%2Fcomments%2F135tly1%2Fhelpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access%2Fjim40zg%2F]

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sintamo Jun 11, 2023

It's one thing to test a new idea or a UX tweak or similar on a small portion of users - but just turning off a key way to access your service is so just so weird to me. How many of Reddit's decisions at this point are some version of, "hey, how angry do they get? What can we get away with?"

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gravalicious Jun 11, 2023

Bruh, I agree. I'm super interested to see the fallout of the community from this. I know it's super easy to say "fuck /u/spez", but how many people will truly pull through to delete their accounts and/or stop using reddit?

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fox Jun 11, 2023

Already deleted any accounts I had. Overwrote all comments with this tool too.

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

@gravalicious @Sintamo

GitHub - j0be/PowerDeleteSuite: Power Delete Suite for Reddit

Power Delete Suite for Reddit. Contribute to j0be/PowerDeleteSuite development by creating an account on GitHub.

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AbelianGrape

Make sure it actually overwrote all your comments. PowerDeleteSuite doesn't respect the edit rate limit. I used a fork which runs much slower but respects the limit.

Also, it's a good idea to wait several days between the editing and deleting your account. Many users on reddit were suggesting that reddit holds on to pre-edit text for a while. Obviously archives hold onto it forever, but if your goal is to deny your content to reddit, that's orthogonal.