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You Can't Look at Porn on Any Reddit Third-Party App Now (www.vice.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Following changes to its API access, users are forced to log in on the official Reddit app if they want to view NSFW content on mobile.

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[–] DrMango@lemmy.world 285 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not just porn! Since reddit only has one such tag you can apply to posts, many subreddits were using the NSFW tag for a wider variety of reasons such as spoilers, content which may contain unsettling material (aka "triggers"), and more!

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The stoners on Reddit got screwed - many of the weed subs got the banhammer, and the rest got NSFW'd because spez wants Reddit as G-rated as Disney for the IPO.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wait really? which weed subs got banned?

[–] varzaman@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Trees is still around, so idk lol.

[–] neoman4426@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

To be fair, there's been a site wide spoiler tag for a few years now, but yeah before it was introduced people used NSFW for that if a community didn't allow actual NSFW stuff or whatever

[–] ScoobyDoo27@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s not all NSFW. The Synology community I followed went full NSFW in protest and I can still view their subreddit. I cannot view subreddits such as watchitfortheplot. So somehow Reddit is differentiating.

[–] minnow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I know they forced some subreddits go back to SFW if it was obvious the NSFW was just to protest. Maybe that's the case for the subreddit you're looking at?

[–] varzaman@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

NSFW means no ads as well.

I also remember the announcement was sexually explicit content won’t be served through the api, so they must have a way to differentiate then.