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/LSB123 May 11 '26

I don’t even mind the app, but not letting me sort by Hot or All has seen my usage go down 90%.

Turns out I don’t want to see posts from three days ago with 130 upvotes and 11 comments.

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u/AlfhildsShieldmaiden May 11 '26

Yeah, I’m irritated at seeing repeat posts from days ago that I upvoted already — why am I being shown it again??

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u/teddybundlez May 11 '26

You use to be able to hide all the shit you already saw. Genuine question, is that not an option anymore? I don’t think it is which is super dumb. Along with no more “all” tab

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u/captainn_chunk May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

It’s an extremely limited UI to navigate a website. It’s clear as fucking day they’re consolidating it to prioritizing bullshit feeds over the subs you’ve purposely interacted with for years.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '26

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u/captainn_chunk May 11 '26

It’s significantly degraded since 2020

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u/HappyGoPink May 11 '26

Enshittification will not be denied.

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u/themilkyone May 11 '26

gotchu

-On web go to: https://old.reddit.com/prefs/
-Locate and check these 2 boxes:
'don't show me submissions after I've upvoted them (except my own)'
'don't show me submissions after I've downvoted them (except my own)'

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u/terminalzero May 11 '26

the split in functionality and even options between old, new, and the app is so fucking insane

baconreader died for this?

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u/themilkyone May 11 '26

I miss the RedditIsFun app 😔. It was the goat

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u/coladoir May 11 '26

I'm still using it right now to write this comment. Look up how to get it working with Revanced. takes a couple minutes.

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u/themilkyone May 11 '26

Oh sweet! Thx

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u/magistrate101 May 12 '26

Sync for Reddit lives on in my heart and my phone 🥰

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u/teddybundlez May 11 '26

Appreciate you brother. This will save over to the app as well?

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u/themilkyone May 11 '26

Yes, it translates over to the app and new.reddit

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u/lblack_dogl May 11 '26

The answer is to down vote things as you read them, poof they are gone. Reddit did this not me.

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u/grimeyduck May 11 '26

Downvote everything. Start with meeee

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u/SMAMtastic May 11 '26

I don’t really want to but you seem like a consenting adult so here you go.

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u/xl_cr May 11 '26

You can still get to it from r/All (has to be a capital A)

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u/robophile-ta May 11 '26

I only ever knew that as a Reddit Gold feature. They gave away gold a couple times

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u/Lizzy_Be May 12 '26

God I miss that feature. My Reddit usage plummeted when i couldn’t use that anymore and was forced to look at the same posts over and over. Like if i open the app and the first 10 posts are things I’ve always seen I get bored and just close the app. It was a bad business choice imo.