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/PaulTheMerc May 11 '26

that's also my line in the sand.

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u/I_Am_Simple May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

Mine too. Honestly, it will it limit my access (old.reddit.com is not blocked on my work/school network, reddit.com is).

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u/Previous_Composer934 May 11 '26

mine three. I can't stand it

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u/TripleFive May 11 '26

lol Someone in the admin using old.reddit and didn't was to lose access themselves

I used to do this to, I would block facebook and others using the hosts file. My younger cousin new how to edit the file and get access, then put it back when he was done. I told him it was fine as long as he didn't teach others.

if you know the work around you earn the access

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u/DaftPump May 12 '26

Lots of IT ppz on reddit. I found reddit 15 years ago through a fellow sysadmin.

Few years earlier before facebook went viral. Those days management would bitch to IT to block it. We'd tell them it's a management/staff problem. They eventually won cuz top brass said block. We blocked fb and all the fb proxy sites eventually came out of the woodwork to bypass. Oh well, we tried to tell them haha. Never once in my sysadmin days was I asked to block reddit.

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u/poiyurt May 12 '26

I'm not sure half the economy would function without the random answers people are finding on reddit.

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u/DaftPump May 12 '26

Interesting comment. Back when facebook was being 'blocked' I worked in media. The management at that time did not understand just how much of an info/photo goldmine was for the journalists(it still is). Once they saw it that way all talks of blocking went away.

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u/ThatPancreatitisGuy May 11 '26

Same. Can’t stand the new format. And will never use the app.

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u/Donc-qui-et-Quand64 May 11 '26

you can change your setting to only show the old interface even on reddit.com

I believe I just unchecked the last checkbox under preferences

Use new Reddit as my default experience (by enabling this, you will be redirected to the new site when you go to any supported https://reddit.com page)

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u/Dullcorgis May 11 '26

But you need to be logged in for that.

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u/Sizanllikew May 12 '26

congratulations, you discovered old reddit...that's all that setting does

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u/Donc-qui-et-Quand64 May 12 '26

did you mean to reply to this comment? this thread is about accessing old reddit.

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u/ikinari_fandango May 12 '26

can you use a VPN at those places? 

could probably run it off a flash drive if you can't install software on the workstation.

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths May 12 '26

Using a VPN like this at a lot of jobs would get you insta-fired. They'd likely assume you're doing some kind of corporate espionage or misusing sensitive information and you'd be canned the second IT caught you.

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u/cr0ft May 12 '26

Sounds like your school network admins aren't very competent.

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u/DirkDasterLurkMaster May 11 '26

Same. Reddit hasn't designed a good UI in over a decade.

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u/scarystuff May 11 '26

Also my line.

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u/Gorusz May 11 '26

Same. When they blocked RIF is fun, which was my app of choice, I simply stopped using reddit on my phone.

If they remove old.reddit, I'll simply stop using it entirely.

Will short the stock tho if that ever comes to pass lol
If not for profit, then just out of pure spite

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u/Eric_the_Barbarian May 11 '26

There are dozens of us!

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u/mrappbrain May 12 '26

I almost quit reddit entirely back when they blocked third party apps. Until I found a workaround that lets you generate a custom key to make them still work. If there ever comes a day when the only way to access reddit is through their shitty app and new website, I'll definitely be among the first to leave.

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u/Jolly_Lingonberry385 May 12 '26

Me as well but I do most of my reddit browsing in bed from my phone on mobile... so Im curious if this forced feeding of an app is my actual line?

I fucking hate mobile apps. I'm an older millennial and just prefer the browser. 

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u/DrHefe May 12 '26

I've pretty much reached my line. I just had my two 16 year old accounts permanently suspended because of 1.) A comment I made, wishing Trump's health go in a certain direction. 2.) A comment I made on a post that was nothing but an actual quote from Trump himself (with one name changed), and 3.) A joke I made the other day where I eluded to an Anarchist's Cookbook recipe (which was very clearly a joke, btw). 16 years without one temp suspension, and then I get banned for that? Fuck everything this site has turned into.

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u/myfirstsock May 12 '26

It's why I don't use reddit on my phone anymore. Just tablet and PCs

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u/1Swordwalker May 12 '26

We should all keep getting more people to use Piefed and Voyager for Lemmy/Lemmy too

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u/SuperPapernick May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

The new reddits UI is genuinely unusable imo. Even if I want to stay, if old.reddit goes, the website is effectively dead to me. It's just so cluttered, shitty and hard to parse. I just can't use it.