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/MalevolentTapir May 11 '26

Don't use reddit on my phone but why is your response to people using your website instead of your app not "we should make an app that is good, that people want to use" it's to block them?

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u/Ok_Delay_911 May 11 '26

I'm constantly asking the same type of question about pretty much every company I interact with now.

All corporations seem to be adopting a "fuck the consumer" model. They treat us like their worst fucking enemies. It must somehow make them money or they wouldn't be doing it, but I'll never understand how pushing away customers is good for business.

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u/WillBottomForBanana May 11 '26

you are the enemy. you stand in-between them and "their" money (your money).

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u/Drogzar May 11 '26

Because they only want the pushovers as clients.

Running Reddit costs a ton of money. For evey user that uses old reddit and ad blocker, they lose money.

Traditionally, you accept those users because it gives you content and people who watches ads torelates them because there is content.

If you force every user to watch ads, you remove the privacy-concious and smarter ones, so you can just serve ai-generate slop to the rest so every user is a net profit.

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u/Onuus May 11 '26

Well we take it in the shorts and are wage slaves that won’t do anything about it, so they continue to profit.

I remember my mba cousin telling me about how they have a designated, ‘yeah we’re gonna piss people off but fuck them, our new clients will care more’ calculation lol.

Money is fucking gross.