cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
Finally tried the official Reddit app. It's as bad as they say.
You won't have ads if you pay the subscription or install a system level as blocker
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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Or get revanced and install their version so you can browse ad-free because the old content there is invaluable. BTW, if you do that, use the old account you got locked out of. It's unlocked now. Don't go giving them the benefit of a new sign up.
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Magnificent
Oof, that's grim. Looks like it's trying to go full Facebook.
I'm gonna be honest with ya'll, even before all this 3rd party app stuff I never understood why anyone would use an app to view a fucking website. It's like thinking "yes, let me seek and purposely download spyware on my phone to have a worse user experience and see the same thing I can see in my browser without ads"
The beauty of these 3rd party apps is that they had features that made it look and behave much better that any official app that objects ads, forces certain “promoted content”, etc. I loved using Apollo and haven’t visited Reddit since the 30th. Currently using Memmy on iOS. Not a huge fan of mobile sites as they don’t seem to ever function as well, though wefwef seems to be amazingly close.
Yeah it’s especially egregious unless you browse in compact mode. Ads are much less noticeable
He gets us.
I've been dodging and dodging and dodging from using that shitty app for months. When I try posting to other subreddits whenever I have had it installed, none of my posts would go through. I'm always left to post links, for some reason, but not text based posts. That's how broken it is and they've never fixed it because they don't care.
Charge your damn phone
Hey, cut him a break - do you know how much power Reddit's app consumes digging through all the information on your phone, watching where you pause in your doomscrolling, sending all that back to Reddit HQ, and darkpatterning you so you get more ads in front of your eyeballs?
JFC. That's like a 3/5th screen advertisement with enough room for 1 fucking post. Might as well only show ads at that point.
The ads are real bad if you don’t pay to not see them, and trending is dumb, but the most egregious thing is that you can’t sort your Home feed. It is stuck to “best” and the algorithm is terrible.
It used to have the ability to sort, but they removed it at some point, I’m not sure when because I had been using Apollo for years.
I took a look at the last iteration of Alien Blue (which can still be downloaded if you had it at some point but you can’t log into it anymore) and that 2014 app is still better.
It just makes me sad.