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cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 2 years ago

TIL that 70% of US traffic on reddit is from users on a mobile device.

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TIL that 70% of US traffic on reddit is from users on a mobile device.

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cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 2 years ago
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  • Gray@lemmy.ca
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    Worth mentioning that mobile ≠ app. Many people use Reddit in their browsers. Or the official app for that matter. This article doesn’t really give those numbers which I’m sure unfortunately place the third party app users in a smaller minority. Still, I never used a third party app personally and I was still outraged enough at Reddit’s behavior to leave. Hopefully more will follow suit.

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      Aren’t they also pushing changes to have mobile browsers redirect to the app with no option for staying in the browser?

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        Felt like they were doing that for a while. It’s why I went on Boost. I refused to be pushed onto their mobile app.

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          It will, actually.Reddit has been testing forced app usage via blocking mobile browsers entirely, like Pinterest does, for around 2.5 weeks.

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            What an unnecessarily user-hostile move. No wonder they’re going to implement it.

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          It could stop you from using the browser altogether and point you to the app.

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            That’s what they’re currently testing out, yes.

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        You can just enable “desktop site” checkbook in your mobile browser, it would send non-mobile user agent to the server. That’s the only way a server can detect a mobile browser.

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          While that’s an option the desktop site is barely navigable on a desktop let alone on a mobile device

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            old.reddit.com is still an option, for now at least.

            But honestly? I’m going to stick to lemmy as much as I can.

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              old.reddit.com sucks on a phone though. It’s very difficult to navigate without zooming in and out all the time to click on links.

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