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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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[–] 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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