What is Reddit doing
What is Reddit doing
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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.
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Are they just trying to divert as much traffic as possible through their app?
56 0 ReplyYeah, 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.
68 0 ReplyYep, why would the subreddit be safer inside their own app xD
47 0 ReplySo 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.
8 0 ReplyIt'd be nice if Google unlisted links that bring you to "install our app or you get nothing" pages
13 0 Replywhy google?
2 0 ReplyIt's what all the normies use. If they lose a major source of traffic over it, they might stop doing it.
1 0 Replygoogle search is mostly shit without a private frontend like startpage (shut up bot, i know they're owned by an advertising company)
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Can apps access your photos?
3 0 ReplyIf you give them permissions. Speaking from Android. Don't know how iOS works.
5 0 ReplyiOS is the same way. The user needs to grant access to photos.
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That is exacly what they try to achieve, satansmaggotycumfart.
18 0 ReplyBut why?
Do they somehow get more personal data that way?
I thought closing access to the API was for my own protection!
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Yep, if you request the desktop version you don't get that redirect.
4 0 ReplyYep. Reddit has gone full corporate.
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