cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.
The only post visible between ads is one that’s been reposted thousands of times… This perfectly captures the steaming pile of shit that is the official app (and the reddit experience in general).
The official app is a horrible user experience, but the bigger issue is that most of the content is fake. Between commercial shills, political activists, social-media marketing groups hired to “increase engagement”, and various other bad actors, the site is no longer useful or differentiated. The only places that seem unaffected are smaller private subs.
I don’t know how the fediverse will prevent the same thing happening. The bad actors are just going to follow the eyeballs. They don’t care which platform is used to host their actions. There was already an instance of a group of new kbin accounts being used to mass upvote topics to appear in the hot feed here.
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Seriously, why the fuck has advertising become so incredibly insidious and pervasive in recent years? I can’t go anywhere on the internet and not see ads or a warning to turn off my ad blocker or message telling me to subscribe to view the content. Worse, I can’t even be out in public in the city without having another fucking ad shoved in my face. I was recently walking downtown at 1 am or so waiting on an uber and really enjoying the cool night air, not on my phone or anything, just enjoying the moment, and I saw an insanely bright billboard advertising something.
I feel like ads are just starting to really wear on me. I’m sick of consuming and being told to consume and being manipulated in the death throes of capitalism.
Edit:spelling
Once you get used to an ad-free Reddit experience, it’s truly jarring how many ads the official Reddit app has. Same with Youtube. I have Adblock for Youtube on my computer and when I use the Youtube app on my TV I’m astounded by the number of ads being greedily shoved down my face.
I really can’t do ads. I use Blokada on my android phone and that killed all the ads from reddit regardless of which app I used, but the actual reddit app was just terrible in and of itself. There were so many better choices.
I don’t think this is something new… Lots of webpages had tons of ads in the 90s and 2000’s.
Yahoo 2002: Yahoo 2002
Or this one from the wall street journal in 2000: WSJ 2000
Compare those to today: Yahoo Today
I don’t think it’s any worse today really.
It is worse, though. No Yahoo games 😭 I played that flash pool game to death.
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Meanwhile my phone literally has ads in its system video player and file explorer
Wtf?? What phone is that so I can avoid it
any redmi it seems
Sounds awful. I am pretty sick of just not being able to spend a single moment without being advertised to.
yeah it sucks like imagine going to the file explorer to see a document and you get some ads like that’s next level bs lmao
Holy fuck, 90% of the screen is dedicated to ads
one post. ONE SINGLE POST on the entire screen…
And it’s a question that’s been asked every single week for 10 years.
Also it’s kind of crazy to me the amount of traffic it gets every. Single. Time. I know they have a bot issue, but do people just like that they know they have a popular opinion and just want to see rhe up votes or is it just one of those “watch the same movie 15 times for the comfort of it” type things. Either way I find it wild.
Everyone who didn’t get their word in last time is desperate to
farm upvotes‘make themselves visible’ this time instead.
bots reposting bots replying to bots up voting bots
and an ad
Remember to leave a review and uninstall.
It makes you feel that something is wrong with your device.
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The worst part to me is the people still on Reddit complaining about the blackout because “you can scroll past the ads”, which completely misses the point
Ive seen a post in programming dev instance that those posts we were seeign, shilling for reddit was proven to be astroturfed using LLM to generate the pro reddit reply
It was this bad a few months ago when I used it as well. I saw almost nothing but gambling ads.
Never used the app, never plan to, but I can’t even handle the main site now. Have (diagnosed) PTSD due to religious trauma, and those fucking unblockable “He Gets Us” ads are intolerable.
As a former user of Baconreader for 11 years, and old.reddit + RES for about the same, this was what did it for me.
I refuse to be served hegetSus ads.
Can we stop posting Reddit’s ads here please
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charge your phone OP
OP is using the official Reddit app. Probably charged it a few hours ago.
That’s why I used third-party app all the time, never used their official Reddit app from day one to the day I came to Lemmy
Same, it took me a minute to understand what I was looking at. If that is what the official r3dd!t app looks like, I’m glad I jumped ship the day baconreader went offline.
