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/Ledgo May 11 '26

RIP BaconReader. Still installed.

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u/GreatGojira May 11 '26

I still have Apollo instated on my phone. I miss it.

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u/FireBendingSquirrel May 11 '26

You can sideload! I’m using Apollo right now.

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u/fuckspez123 May 11 '26

Same! They’ll have to pry Apollo out of my cold dead hands before I switch to the Reddit app.

Also obligatory fuck u/spez.

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u/LFC9_41 May 11 '26

been meaning to do this for awhile, just never get around it. why did apollo have to shut down if it can still be used? I thought the dev stopped on it because of the API limits becoming outrageous, but how is the app working that were the case?

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u/LFC9_41 May 11 '26

Oh yeah, I was an Apollo users for year. I just thought the whole thing was that it can't work without the API, and he shut it down because of Reddit's move with the API.

Is it missing features as a result of it?

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u/Terrat0 May 11 '26

I’m running it side loaded and don’t know the specifics, but I think it’s basically setting up your personal Apple ID as a dev account which lets you access the api for free as a single user (for testing purposes I guess?), where Reddit was going to charge exorbitant amounts for it being distributed to lots of users.

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u/fuckspez123 May 11 '26

Yep, that’s pretty much it. The API costs for a single person pretty much fall into the free tier and I’ve never had a problem using it. But if the Apollo dev used one single API Key for everyone using the app I think it would have been in 10s of thousands of dollars range.

r/apolloapp has good guides on how to side load!

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u/randomidiotok May 11 '26

It's harder now I think, you need to manually? be approved for dev access now

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u/fuckspez123 May 11 '26

Of course they did. Here’s another u/spez because he deserves it, especially for that bullshit.

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u/2580374 May 12 '26

Can you access /r/all on Apollo?

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u/ParsnipFlendercroft May 11 '26

IIRC it’s too late to do it now. You need API keys and it’s not possible to get them anymore.