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Title: Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website - Ars Technica
Post by: rcjordan on May 05, 2026, 12:22:06 PM

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/why-reddit-blocked-my-daily-visit-to-its-mobile-website/
Title: Re: Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website - Ars Technica
Post by: ergophobe on May 05, 2026, 04:46:45 PM
I've been having the same thought. Not with respect to Reddit but other things, including "work" things.

My phone storage is maxed and I don't want to get a new phone. I deleted all the photos and a lot of other things, but lately have been trying to get rid of apps.

I genuinely like the Merlin bird app from Cornell - not at all enshittified and it is a case where a website doesn't do the job (because you need internet for a website and you generally don't have that when trying to ID birds). But it was well over a GB.

As I've done that, I realize that websites that once worked fine are now unusable. A service I use to manage our rental has a crappy app (it's one of those that basically seems like a wrapper for the web page). It offered a slightly better experience than the website, but only slightly. So I went back to the website to find that it is now unusable on mobile.