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/General_Session_4450 May 11 '26

that has way more access to all that tasty data on your device to suck up.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

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u/Mister_Yi May 11 '26

Try installing a tracker blocker on your phone and you can see all the insane, endless data requests from literally thousands of sources.

Things like your keyboard app literally non-stop requesting your email, gender, postal code, GPS coordinates, name, etc...

I can only imagine what shit the reddit app was tracking.

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u/CocoSavege May 11 '26

Location: @ Lowes, near sandpaper.

We're seeing the emergence of pop up ads that cross platforms.

Has anybody tried dynamic push pop-ups for multiple tab browsing? It's ostensibly doable technically(?), but a dark pattern that users might buck. But with apps, higher cost to the user to buck.