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submitted 1 year ago by mpa92643@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

This is literally just the r/nyt subreddit about The New York Times.

Given he apparently takes inspiration from Elon Musk, it's only a matter of time until u/spez starts adding post view limits unless you pay extra.

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[-] hoodatninja@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Ehhhh. This could just be their current stopgap because of all of the NSFW swaps happening. I think you are extrapolating too much.

Don’t get me wrong, I could totally see Reddit enacting this policy in their “infinite wisdom” and quietly rolling it out. But you are drawing too much from this screenshot. We need more context.

[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

Nope. It's because it's easier to harvest data through the app, so they funnel people towards it.

[-] hoodatninja@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Oh there’s no doubt they’ve slowly made it more of a pain in the ass to not use the app (while also making the app worse) but this specific screenshot is too much missing context for OP’s claim to be assumed. It could be true but we don’t know enough.

[-] net00@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I do remember seeing this popup way before the whole API & protests debacle. The warning doesn't even make sense, how will switching to the app to see the same content be safer?

I figured you needed to login (to apply your block list, filters, NSFW prefs, etc), but merely seeing the desktop mode of the website lets you through (not even using old.reddit). So this is another cheap way of forcing you to their cancer app.

Now you can't even SORT comments without using the app. They are really taking all pqges off Elon's book on ruining a website.

[-] hoodatninja@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

That was specifically for NSFW subs. What OP is showing us is not an NSFW sub. Hence the post.

I do not know why people think I tacitly approve of these changes. I do not. But what OP is claiming may or may not be true. We do not have enough information. It’s a completely separate matter from whether or not I think Reddit has been trying to funnel people towards their app, which clearly they have been for quite some time.

[-] net00@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

To be clear I just tried what the OP showed and could see the same thing, i forgot to add it in my comment

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