▲ 1607 ▼ You Can't Look at Porn on Any Reddit Third-Party App Now (www.vice.com) submitted 3 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world 408 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children) Is this just speculation or is there evidence for it? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] z500@startrek.website 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/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Verpous@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] axus@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) My imagination is that old.reddit.com was cheaper to serve than whatever it is they are doing now. Maybe they make less ad revenue? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Verpous@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago To keep old reddit alive they need to also spend developer time supporting some new features and not breaking legacy code. It's more than just server costs. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] z500@startrek.website 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/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Verpous@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] axus@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) My imagination is that old.reddit.com was cheaper to serve than whatever it is they are doing now. Maybe they make less ad revenue? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Verpous@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago To keep old reddit alive they need to also spend developer time supporting some new features and not breaking legacy code. It's more than just server costs. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] axus@lemm.ee 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) My imagination is that old.reddit.com was cheaper to serve than whatever it is they are doing now. Maybe they make less ad revenue? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Verpous@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago To keep old reddit alive they need to also spend developer time supporting some new features and not breaking legacy code. It's more than just server costs. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Verpous@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago To keep old reddit alive they need to also spend developer time supporting some new features and not breaking legacy code. It's more than just server costs. permalink fedilink source parent