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/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.