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It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To access the site you can log on via desktop, the mobile apps, or wait for the experiment to conclude.

This is separate from the API issue. This will actually BLOCK you from even viewing reddit on your phone without using the official app.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20230611224026/https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/jim40zg/

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[–] flickertail@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Between this and Twitter, I feel like "enshittification" is really the word of the past year. It's incredible to watch these massive social networks completely turn on their users in the name of profit.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were always going to. The pre-enshittification stage of a modern capitalist website consists of burning VC money to collect users to later exploit.

[–] leem@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago
[–] IDe@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Twitter probably opened the floodgates when they managed to shaft users and cut API access without outright killing themselves. Now everyone else is emboldened to ask "why can't we do that too?".

[–] Kaladin_Stormblessed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

*without outright killing themselves YET.

[–] ThatOneGuy@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

The thing that made me saddest about Twitter is how they shafted their own people.

[–] VoterFrog@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know Netflix has been enshitifying for a while now but that's accelerated a bit this year too. I work in tech and it's been happening everywhere.

[–] flickertail@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Forgot about Netflix! Yeah they've got to be pretty close to late-stage enshittification at this point. They can only raise their prices so much while simultaneously removing content before they completely lose their users.