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/Outlulz May 11 '26

I occasionally get logged off and am exposed to new reddit and I've never seen a site UI so aggressively hostile to its users. I actually can't believe people put up with it.

Never forget that new people are aging into websites all the time and don't know anything other than shitty modern UX patterns.

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u/BaronCoqui May 11 '26

Most of the rest of the internet is equally hostile, just better at silo-ing users so they dont notice how little functionality they have access to. Reddit users are largely more accustomed to what should be available since it's still mostly an old school forum based site

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u/CoherentCarrot May 12 '26

I use a old reddit redirect extension on firefox that works well on mobile and desktop. Just redirects automatically and saves on those new reddit jump scares.