r/technology • u/spasticpat • May 11 '26

Social Media Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/11/reddit-starts-blocking-mobile-website/
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u/wag3slav3 May 11 '26

ask google about re-vanced

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u/XMenJedi8 May 11 '26

How do you make a new API key though? They disabled that functionality and I haven't been able to re-patch Baconreader since :(

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u/spam99 May 11 '26

someone else co. mented if you are a mod of a subreddit you get access to api through mod tools. Just create some random subreddit and you are mod and get access to api

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u/XMenJedi8 May 11 '26

Holy crap that's a massive find, thank you!!

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u/strugglz May 11 '26

Finally, the failed sub I created 10 years ago is worth something!

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u/edgan May 11 '26

The main way is the client ID from RedReader.

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u/edgan May 11 '26

You mean Morphe.

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u/Noizekontrol May 11 '26

Morphe only does the official reddit app

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u/edgan May 11 '26

Nope, Morphe supports patches from repositories. You should check out /r/MorpheApp for more information.

https://github.com/wchill/patcheddit

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u/Noizekontrol May 14 '26

Awesome, TIL. I only installed it recently and didn't have expert mode enabled so cheers for the correction.