who the fuck designed this?
Also the "actual fucking content" is a mindless repost bot, with a bunch of reposted comments trying to build fake internet points so when the accounts switch to being spam advertising bots they last a little longer.
My guess is someone who really, really, really wants you to see the advertisements. With a little bit of content on the side.
just reminds me to Nolan Sorrento from ready player one
This is the first of our planned upgrades. Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures
idk which one is more sad, that reddit is actually doing this or that i had to specify "ready player one" when looking up the exact quote because otherwise it referred me to completely serious marketing articles
Would you like some usable content with your ads?
Dude, scrolling by this on connect and panicked that the ads were already hitting Lemmy!
I’m one of the few that never used the third party apps for Reddit during my time there. Only the official app. And even I could tell you that app was miserable. No exaggeration, every third post is a massive ad. Once you’ve scrolled far enough your entire feed becomes ads. You have to close out/refresh to make it go back to normal.
Wefwef is a glitchy web app that doesn’t let me scroll or post comments sometimes made and maintained by some dude in his basement, and it’s still preferable to the official app of a company seeking a multimillion dollar IPO
That’s not wefwef—that’s on lemmy.world; it’s not keeping up.
Ah, good point- I was mostly being hyperbolic to illustrate just how shitty the Reddit app was.
I think all the previous redditors did the same thing I did when signing up. Lemmy.world sounds the most general, so that’s the instance I used. I’ll give a smaller/more local one a try and see if that improves the performance!
Legit thought Lemmy was serving me an advert for a moment there...!
But yeah, the official R*ddit app is Garbo, they even bought Alien Blue years ago and have just failed to keep pace with Apollo, RIF or BaconReader. This API move is just a monopolisation of their content stream, hugely anti-competition.
Even if they sorted out their app, rolled back API to free, I'd never go back. Fuck Spez.
While spez is indeed a truly horrible piece of work, we should also keep in mind that he wouldn't be doing this without having some serious backing from shareholders. CEOs are the public figure presented to us for the 2 minutes' hate but let's not forget that these decisions are taken in huge boardrooms. So maybe we should say 'fuck spez et al' instead of just 'fuck spez'.
I'm using wefwef and the preview was perfectly cropped it looked like an ad as well. I was relieved it wasn't.
Don't post that junk on here! ;)
Imagine signing up to Reddit to discuss your gambling problems and then on the first sign on you get hit with this 💀💀
You're browsing /r/stopgambling? Here are some gambling ads for you!
This sort of thing happened several times over there. I'm making up this example (I think), but there were a few posts on the mod subs begging reddit not to do things like that.
If you use any subs related to eating disorders you’ll probably get diet stuff as well
I remember, I was on holiday 4 or 5 years ago. I was sitting at the bar having my morning coffee and browsing reddit and I was getting annoyed that if I went to get a drink from the bar when I came back and turned the screen back on it would reset my position in the comments.
So, I asked around and was recommended RIF. Not only did it keep comment position, but it was just all round in every single way better.
No, I couldn't go back to the official app.
It's simple, really.
- if you have Reddit app installed, uninstall it first
- download revanced manager and install the apk. https://revanced.app/
- find Reddit app's apk in apkmirror.com and download it
- open revanced manager and select Patcher -> "select an application" -> storage and select the downloaded Reddit apk.
- make sure "disable ads" is in the list of selected patches
- run the patcher, wait until it completed
- don't install the resulting apk right away yet. Instead, open the "..." menu on the top right of the screen and backup the patched apk
- close the revanced manager app and open your file manager. Locate the patched apk you just backed up in the download folder, then install it.
Note that I haven't actually tested this with actual Reddit app.
Edit: oops, replied to a wrong thread
Instructions unclear: iPhone now running Windows Subsystem for Android. Plz help.
That fixes the ads but still the official reddit app is a huge backstep from the now cutoff apps that made browsing reddit a pleasure. It's just a rippoff off all the terible algorihtm based Facebook, Twitter and Instagram apps that constantly show me posts that i've neither subscribed to nor I am interested to see. It's a shame.
Does this work for YouTube?
Yes, it's initially made to patch youtube. The recommended youtube apk to patch right now is v18.19.35, or you can download pre-patched apk of youtube here: https://github.com/revanced-apks/build-apps/releases . You'll also need to install Vanced MicroG if your phone is not rooted.
I also saw patched reddit apk there fwiw.
Thank you for your sacrifice. If I ever had a hint of an inclination to disregard the common wisdom and try reddit's official app, now it's permanently gone.
The only thing I miss about the official app is seeing those ads promoting Christianity and promptly reporting them as hate speech.
That doesnt do anything anyway. You alwere kinda wasting your own time.
I dunno, if it feels cathartic then maybe it was worth it to them.
🤢🤮
Man I hate the official reddit app so much. Random ads look like real posts.
Apollo for lemmy when?
Babe charge your phone you're making me nervous
That 15% battery status is giving me anxiety by proxy.
You should be used to it by now. One of the first rules when the internet was created is all phone screenshots must be taken while the battery is low.
When the Internet was created, not only did phones not have batteries, they had their own power grid, separate from that used by other appliances.
The most sleazy thing it does is that if you want to download or share an image with your friends in, say, a text chain, it brands that image with Reddit crap.
They go completely out of their way to make the app unusable.
You can turn that off in settings. But seriously it’s annoying that you have to do that in the first place
It's a stupid idea that brings them no value and it's user-hostile.
I didn't realize it could be turned off though! I guess that's useful for when I hold my nose and scroll quickly through the meme subreddits to find things for my meme text chains.
Oh wow I've not seen the official app in years. That's insane, who on earth is happy using this!?
Sadly, there's a shit ton of people who don't know any better and will stick with reddit as it slowly dies
Permanently Deleted
It is already independent, people just do the stuff they used to do on reddit (eg: complaining about reddit)
The reddit app is garbage compared to other offerings. Too bad they fucked the whole API thing for the 3rd party apps
Right now Relay for Reddit is working on a subscription model and has been granted a extension period. It's currently free to use. Not sure if I'll bother paying for it to stay on Reddit, but for now I can still use Reddit without the official app.
Cool. I didn't know this! At least some good news for now. I'm digging the Lemmy. It's pretty easy
Random ads in the official reddit app appear way too often.
feature not a bug
What would fit perfectly now is Snapchat-like short vertical videos on repeat. Do it Reddit
The problem is that Reddit Shorts is something I could ABSOLUTELY see happening in the near future
Kinda already exists. It’s called watch
UPDATE: Apparently Infinity still works across-the-board.
F-Droid keeps nagging me to update Infinity (which I refuse to do). Currently my Galaxy A32 5G is running v5.4.2 and it's still showing up-to-date content every time I refresh. I know from a security standpoint this is a bad idea, but until we come up with a better solution, F-Droid still has it.
ml.docilealligator.infinityforredit
SHA256
0e788e7fd58ef583b32613c61efbba5898ded0ac2aaf7c4919a3b67e61182588 *base.apkBoth the APK I download directly from F-Droid and the one I pulled from my phone via ADB share this SHA256SUM hash.
Like less than 10% of the screen is covered in content, lmao
There is literally more content in OPs battery
Less than - if you look OP isn't subscribed to AskReddit, so it's 0% content they actually have subscribed to.
