It made me so thankful for piracy. What an abysmal experience. First of all, I’m on mobile and they make you use the app. There is literally no way to get around it except TOR, no using browser, even on desktop mode, as somone like me who is deaf, it means I can’t have my special accessibility extensions which sucks.
So I get to the app ready to watch my show. Bam Adds! Worse than youtube! It’s like an add every 5-10min that lasts from 5-40s. Who the hell can actually enjoy a movie or a TV show in these conditions?
I was like fine, I’ll download it to watch offline then. Nope, that’s blocked now. So I figured I’d tinker with DNS and see if I could manage to block those adds. That didn’t work.
I’m so glad piracy exists. I see streming services have gone full circle. No better than paying an absurd amount for a TV channel plastered with adds. Urgh. I’ll make sure to stay away from disney restaurants now so they can’t legally kill me since I watched an episode of futurama on their platform.
There is nothing that bugs me more than the intentional enshittification of mobile websites/apps.
I don’t want all your shitty apps.
Why do I need an app on mobile, but the website works fine in desktop mode?
Why do mobile browsers even allow shitty sites like Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest to forbid you to save images.
I wouldn’t even care, if every second image search result wasn’t one of these horrible sites.
The app is intentional, with browsers they can’t control which extensions you run, and therefore can’t force their ads on you. With the app they can control the environment and you are legally not allowed to modify their app because trademark…
Oh my god yes.
Every fucking time I open reddit on my phone the entire website goes grey and they offer me to use the app… Unless the content is NSFW in which case they tell me I have to use the app.
Fortunately old reddit still works to get around that but it doesn’t have a mobile page layout
There’s even better workaround - stop going to reddit.
As much as I’d love to, it is still one of the best places to read up on recommendations for stuff, be it hardware opinions or obscure book recommendations. It is certainly a better place for tech reviews than most of the other sites you find using search engines which just do stuff like “This is the best on a budget. This is the best for that. This is the best overall. Here is where you can buy all of that.”
Those sites never feel like they do a genuine review of stuff but instead try to sell you something. Plus they feel like they are copy pasting from each other.
I don’t really use reddit anymore but I have an android app called stealth that lets you browse. Can’t login, but for web links and such its much better than old.
You can subscribe to subs as well, but you can’t reply.
I rarely visit Reddit, but when I do, I use Oldlander to make it bearable: https://github.com/OctoNezd/oldlander