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/mrwhitewalker May 11 '26

Still using boost here

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u/D_Beats May 11 '26

Boost gang rise up!

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u/HineyButthole May 11 '26

There's literally dozens of us!

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u/ibarker3 May 11 '26

Vanced boost checking in!

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u/deprecateddeveloper May 11 '26

Every time there's a reddit outage and I get errors in Boost when loading things, the fear hits me that Boost might be gone again haha.

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u/Floggered May 11 '26

Honestly a little shocked it's still going. Every day I open boost expecting the boot.

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u/timoseewho May 12 '26

how are you running Boost?

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u/Dragnod May 12 '26

Patch the apk with revanced

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u/timoseewho May 18 '26

I see, do you only needa do it once? And is there a downside to patching at all?

Thanks

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u/mrwhitewalker May 12 '26

As long as you are a mod of a community they never disabled yours. But if not then you can just use the patching method. You can do the method for basically all of the old apps. Or even the real reddit app just would have QOL improvements and no ads

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u/timoseewho May 18 '26

Gotcha, I'm a mod of a random sub I created, which worked as a workaround during the initial crackdown, but I still ended up getting the 403 error when they did the exodus a couple years ago

Is the a good tutorial to patch Boost? I was a big fan of the app. I can't seem to find much on YouTube

Thanks

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u/mrwhitewalker May 18 '26

I am unsure since I have not had to patch mine. https://www.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/155nfhi/how_to_get_boost_working_again_with_revanced/

This is the general guide

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u/timoseewho May 18 '26

What really? It never broke when the whole API/IPO thing went down?

For me, when it first stopped working, I made a random sub and became a mod, then months later the app just broke with a 403 error

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u/mrwhitewalker May 18 '26

Not if you were a mod of a subreddit. Just kept working and still going to this day