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You Can't Look at Porn on Any Reddit Third-Party App Now (www.vice.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Following changes to its API access, users are forced to log in on the official Reddit app if they want to view NSFW content on mobile.

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[–] 35 points 3 years ago (1 child)

https://old.reddit.com/ still seems to work, and that one doesn't force you to use the app or login.

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  • [–] 75 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    The grim reaper is coming for old.reddit.com any day now.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's already been leaked they're killing off everything outside of the official app in phases. Only a matter of time.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    Is this just speculation or is there evidence for it?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    There was a Reddit post a while back where they confirmed the OP was part of an A/B test to disable logging in to old.reddit.com on mobile. Not a great sign.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    That makes sense though considering that they wanted to kill the 3rd party apps too. I'd imagine that for desktop users it shouldn't matter much wether you're using the redesign or old.reddit - they'll be able to collect the same data and show the same ads.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    In January Reddit told third party app developers that there wouldn't be any API changes this year. Maybe in the future, but they definitely wouldn't charge for it this year.

    Similarly, Spez said that old Reddit isn't going away.

    To me, that's enough to consider it a realistic possibility.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Speculation, but it's an inevitability. It costs money to support old.reddit, which means Reddit will certainly kill it on the day that they'll think the backlash will be small enough.

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