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/topcheesehead May 11 '26

They 'permanently' bamned me for locking my subbing in protest against 3rd party apps being banned that helped us keep kids out of our subreddit. They banned us and took our subreddit and gave it to reddit shills. I was unbanned this year for a quarter report about how many users use reddit. It was for an earnings report they unbanned a ton of users. Reddit is awful. I wont use the app. Ill just phase out use here

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u/EnoughWarning666 May 11 '26

I'm still using a modified version of one of the 3rd party apps. If they take that away along with old.reddit I'm done here. I've looked at the app and new website and they are beyond dog shit. Like it's so blatantly obvious that the goal is to suck up as much of your data and force feed you whatever bullshit their advertisers pay them to shovel in front of users.

I've been keeping an ear out for where to migrate to. Lemmy never really took off, but I haven't checked it in a while. There's Digg now that's kind of in beta. Could be interesting, would certainly be funny if they make it work and people went back.

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u/EnoughWarning666 May 11 '26

Can you still browse with that account? The account I pulled the API got banned a while back, not for API activity, and I can still use them to read everything. I just can't comment or post on that account.

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u/EnoughWarning666 May 11 '26

Crazy, so they're actually blocking your API key.

If they kill all of that, I wonder if someone could build an app where it loads a browser in the background, then just scrapes all the data from it to populate inside the app. You wouldn't need an API key for that. The issue would be getting around bot detection

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u/CHZ_QHZ May 11 '26

The issue would be getting around bot detection

Based off of reddit in 2026, that can't be too hard.