I don’t use Reddit anymore, but I wanted to search something that I couldn’t find anywhere. This is what I saw. After killing all the other apps, Reddit now is trying to force us to use their own spyware app.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    587 months ago

    Are they just trying to divert as much traffic as possible through their app?

    • Scrubbles
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      717 months ago

      Yeah, there is 0 way that reddit reviews even 10% of of the content, probably even 5%, if even that. There’s just no way. This is just a scare tactic to get you into their walled garden, to download their app, sign you up, and become a metric.

        • @Delphia
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          77 months ago

          So people cant access “unrated” 18+ content they found on Google and then have people get mad that the content was NSFW or restricted.

          Its essentially a “We dont know what your going to find here and dont want lawsuits” protection.

          • @A_Very_Big_Fan
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            147 months ago

            It’d be nice if Google unlisted links that bring you to “install our app or you get nothing” pages

              • @A_Very_Big_Fan
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                17 months ago

                It’s what all the normies use. If they lose a major source of traffic over it, they might stop doing it.

                • @[email protected]
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                  7 months ago

                  google search is mostly shit without a private frontend like startpage (shut up bot, i know they’re owned by an advertising company)

          • @officermike
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            57 months ago

            If you give them permissions. Speaking from Android. Don’t know how iOS works.

    • @Norodix
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      187 months ago

      That is exacly what they try to achieve, satansmaggotycumfart.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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        117 months ago

        But why?

        Do they somehow get more personal data that way?

        I thought closing access to the API was for my own protection!

    • lemmyng
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      47 months ago

      Yep, if you request the desktop version you don’t get that redirect.