As quoted from the linked post.

It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To access the site you can log on via desktop, the mobile apps, or wait for the experiment to conclude.

This is separate from the API issue. This will actually BLOCK you from even viewing reddit on your phone without using the official app.

Archive.org link in case the post is removed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230611224026/https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/jim40zg/

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    It’s unbelievable how’s user hostile all of these major site have become. I deleted my 11 year old Reddit account today and while it hurt a little it’s important that we send a message and not use Reddit at least until they repeal this bullshit.

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    It’s getting worse by the minute. I really really hope Lemmy usage picks up.

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    Pretty disappointing to see something I’ve spent so much time with go down the tubes like this. I know that for a lot of people, Reddit has been dying for years, but I’ve stuck to old.reddit and my Android apps, and haven’t looked at /r/all in a long, long time. I unsubscribed from all of the big/default subreddits, and just hang out in my happy subs where people (mostly) are people and aren’t lunatics, and it’s still been a nice place.

    Killing the mobile apps is pretty much the last straw for me. I’m sure I’ll still click on search results from Reddit sometimes, but I won’t be logged in anymore and it will only be on a browser with ad-blocking and privacy features. There is no way I’m downloading their app.

    If they were to go this route for all users, I would simply never use Reddit again on my phone. And yes, I’m in the minority, and yes, I know they don’t care about losing me, but man, what a bummer.

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    Jeez. The speed at which I’ve gone from “man it sucks that Apollo is shutting down but I still really enjoy Reddit and will suffer the first-party client” to “wow, Reddit is really trying to destroy their service and it’s probably best I don’t invest any more time there” is insane… going to draft up some thoughts and a probable farewell message for my frequented subs and followers there. End of an era.

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    I hate when people use passive voice in these things. It’s such a slimy way to try and avoid responsibility.

    “We have blocked you from using a mobile browser.” is the active voice. It includes a subject (“we”) and a verb (“blocked”). It says that someone made a decision, executed that decision, and is responsible.

    "It looks like … “, " … is currently unavailable” is so fucking weaselly and irresponsible. You are 100% a complete piece of shit if you ever say something like that. You are not responsible enough to handle a Wendy’s drive-through order, let alone a large organization.

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      I didn’t know there was a word for it. I always just called it “corperate talk”

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        You learn to talk like this inside a large corporation too. I try not to do it, but it’s difficult and I catch myself doing it every now and then, because you see other people writing like this all the time.

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          I learned to do it when in a call centre to avoid laying blame on any particular party (the company or the customer). Agreed though it can come across pretty shittily.

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          Even in corporations that are committed to a good culture of kindness, you can still find opponents who won’t hesitate throw you under the bus in order to further an agenda.

          Using active tone in corporate is risky, because office politics can accuse it of being aggressive/hostile in order to block a policy. They don’t necessarily care that the messenger winds up getting written up by HR and sent to sensitivity training.

          I find myself being very careful about then tone of my emails after getting caught in the crossfire between two warring factions. Passive tone is less likely to come back to haunt you.

          I really hate having to navigate office politics, but it is what it is.

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        I think many people only know what it is because MS Word would (does?) suggest rewriting passive voice into active.

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          Its a commonly taught thing in English classes where I’m from (Ontario) – we would get harped on it fairly regularly

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            It was common in the States when I was in school. How well someone learned to extract those lessons and apply them is a different matter. Is it more important for someone to learn how to use active voice over passive, or remember the lecture where they were told what that means? Even if you were an A student how long would you remember if you weren’t constantly applying that knowledge?

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    Damn now this is just next level bullshit. I thought that even if I can’t use Infinity anymore I can still access reddit through a firefox mobile with adblock and privacy addons to make the ux somewhat bearable.

    So…

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      Destroy reddit speedrun any% [WORLD RECORD]

      Yeah the desktop site especially is why i wanted to leave reddit for the past few months, im happy they shot themselves in the foot the past week so we could move over to a different platform. I kept having to switch back to old.reddit just to see a NSFW post without an account, they made it so you cant even sort comments anymore without being logged in recently. Just malicious design. The website on mobile has been shit for years now asking you to USE THE MOBILE APP.

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      I’m really hoping for Infinity for Lemmy… My first experience with reddit was from Infinity. That app is great.

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        The dev posted on r/Infinty_For_Reddit that he’s gonna try a subscription model first, and that he personally doesn’t use Lemmy, so there’s no Infinity for Lemmy client in the works, although he says that making Infinity For Lemmy should be easy with the API Proxy that the Lemmy Developers are making

        link to the full post

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        Looking at Infinity’s code, porting it to use a custom api url isn’t that hard, allowing the use of the Tafkars reddit api-lemmy bridge

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      You can spoof the user-agent, it’s a PITA but not that hard. I did it to use chat gpt with bing, but didn’t bother for Reddit

      I recommend libreddit, no commenting and it’s slower, but at least it works on mobile

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        Somehow Microsoft was still quiet sucessfull with Edge in large parts of the society.

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          Yes that’s true and I’m sure it isn’t that bad. I just don’t like the way they are trying to force their browser on everyone which is why I try to avoid Edge as much as possible. It’s kind of a personal principle now. Microsoft likely doesn’t care about that though since, as you said, they are successful with that technique.

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            Funny enought i installed Edge on Linux in order to use Teams decently. But happily avoid Microsoft elswhere.

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            I use Safari on my Mac, and Google is just about as bad.

            If I open the Gmail site on my iPhone in Safari, I have to click past a giant “INSTALL GMAIL APP” button to get to the teeny-tiny (no thanks, continue on mobile web) link.

            That said, I use Chrome on my Windows PC and Edge is frickin’ annoying. It’s like when you go to a car lot just to look, and the doofus in khakis and a polo won’t let you walk around in peace.

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      Unless here the main user iuses the official app, including me because I forgot how good rif was.

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    Yikes this is so insane. I’m so sick of the ads and spyware laden apps. Once you look into that abyss it’s hard to unsee it. It’s uncomfortable to have every aspect of you monetized and viewed. It’s unnatural man. I just started hardening my internet and device use this year.

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    Elon and Donald taught everyone that when you start being a dick, double down on it.

    Love how totally out of touch with human psychology these decision makers are.

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    Honestly, mobile browing (even using old.reddit) has been garbage for years because they detect your mobile OS and constantly try to push their app on you. Click on link, do you want to open in mobile app? let me open the playstore for you. And then you also get limited comments. To see more comments open in mobile app… You could do a case study in how to alienate your customers into leaving your platform on just mobile browsing reddit.

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    I want to leave Reddit completely so bad. They’re ruining such a good thing, I was a member for 13 years. I hope Lemmy kinda just naturally replaces it for me but I’m sure there’s some stuff that’s just the best to go to Reddit for, I hope that changes slowly and people start using Lemmy or something else. But hey im here and it feels pretty good. Feels kinda like when I found Reddit for the first time all those years ago. Hello everyone :)