This app.

who the fuck designed this?

Also the "actual fucking content" is a mindless repost bot, with a bunch of reposted comments trying to build fake internet points so when the accounts switch to being spam advertising bots they last a little longer.
- yeah, was gonna say that's a user issue but it's in the biggest scabreddit so that's kind of on the admins too
My guess is someone who really, really, really wants you to see the advertisements. With a little bit of content on the side.
- just reminds me to Nolan Sorrento from ready player one
  This is the first of our planned upgrades. Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures
  idk which one is more sad, that reddit is actually doing this or that i had to specify "ready player one" when looking up the exact quote because otherwise it referred me to completely serious marketing articles
- Would you like some usable content with your ads?

I’m one of the few that never used the third party apps for Reddit during my time there. Only the official app. And even I could tell you that app was miserable. No exaggeration, every third post is a massive ad. Once you’ve scrolled far enough your entire feed becomes ads. You have to close out/refresh to make it go back to normal.

Wefwef is a glitchy web app that doesn’t let me scroll or post comments sometimes made and maintained by some dude in his basement, and it’s still preferable to the official app of a company seeking a multimillion dollar IPO

That’s not wefwef—that’s on lemmy.world; it’s not keeping up.
- Ah, good point- I was mostly being hyperbolic to illustrate just how shitty the Reddit app was.
  I think all the previous redditors did the same thing I did when signing up. Lemmy.world sounds the most general, so that’s the instance I used. I’ll give a smaller/more local one a try and see if that improves the performance!

Dude, scrolling by this on connect and panicked that the ads were already hitting Lemmy!

Legit thought Lemmy was serving me an advert for a moment there...!

But yeah, the official R*ddit app is Garbo, they even bought Alien Blue years ago and have just failed to keep pace with Apollo, RIF or BaconReader. This API move is just a monopolisation of their content stream, hugely anti-competition.

Even if they sorted out their app, rolled back API to free, I'd never go back. Fuck Spez.

While spez is indeed a truly horrible piece of work, we should also keep in mind that he wouldn't be doing this without having some serious backing from shareholders. CEOs are the public figure presented to us for the 2 minutes' hate but let's not forget that these decisions are taken in huge boardrooms. So maybe we should say 'fuck spez et al' instead of just 'fuck spez'.
- Just dropping in to say I noticed your 1984 reference, and appreciated it especially in the context of this particular discussion.
I'm using wefwef and the preview was perfectly cropped it looked like an ad as well. I was relieved it wasn't.

Don't post that junk on here! ;)

Imagine signing up to Reddit to discuss your gambling problems and then on the first sign on you get hit with this 💀💀

You're browsing /r/stopgambling? Here are some gambling ads for you!
This sort of thing happened several times over there. I'm making up this example (I think), but there were a few posts on the mod subs begging reddit not to do things like that.
- If you use any subs related to eating disorders you’ll probably get diet stuff as well

It's simple, really.

if you have Reddit app installed, uninstall it first
download revanced manager and install the apk. https://revanced.app/
find Reddit app's apk in apkmirror.com and download it
open revanced manager and select Patcher -> "select an application" -> storage and select the downloaded Reddit apk.
make sure "disable ads" is in the list of selected patches
run the patcher, wait until it completed
don't install the resulting apk right away yet. Instead, open the "..." menu on the top right of the screen and backup the patched apk
close the revanced manager app and open your file manager. Locate the patched apk you just backed up in the download folder, then install it.

Note that I haven't actually tested this with actual Reddit app.

Edit: oops, replied to a wrong thread

Instructions unclear: iPhone now running Windows Subsystem for Android. Plz help.
That fixes the ads but still the official reddit app is a huge backstep from the now cutoff apps that made browsing reddit a pleasure. It's just a rippoff off all the terible algorihtm based Facebook, Twitter and Instagram apps that constantly show me posts that i've neither subscribed to nor I am interested to see. It's a shame.
- There is an option in revanced manager to patch reddit sync to use your own oauth client id. I just tried it out and the patched reddit sync just crashed when it start loading the frontpage. oh well.
Does this work for YouTube?
- Yes, it's initially made to patch youtube. The recommended youtube apk to patch right now is v18.19.35, or you can download pre-patched apk of youtube here: https://github.com/revanced-apks/build-apps/releases . You'll also need to install Vanced MicroG if your phone is not rooted.
  I also saw patched reddit apk there fwiw.

I remember, I was on holiday 4 or 5 years ago. I was sitting at the bar having my morning coffee and browsing reddit and I was getting annoyed that if I went to get a drink from the bar when I came back and turned the screen back on it would reset my position in the comments.

So, I asked around and was recommended RIF. Not only did it keep comment position, but it was just all round in every single way better.

No, I couldn't go back to the official app.

Thank you for your sacrifice. If I ever had a hint of an inclination to disregard the common wisdom and try reddit's official app, now it's permanently gone.

The only thing I miss about the official app is seeing those ads promoting Christianity and promptly reporting them as hate speech.

That doesnt do anything anyway. You alwere kinda wasting your own time.
- I dunno, if it feels cathartic then maybe it was worth it to them.

🤢🤮

Man I hate the official reddit app so much. Random ads look like real posts.

Apollo for lemmy when?

Try www.wefwef.app!
Wefwef is pretty much exactly that
if u liked RiF, Connect to Lemmy is a p good app. After messing w the settings browsing lemmy feels so much cleaner.
- I've been having some html errors in Connect, I'm back on Jerboa for now. I like Connect's UI a lot more though

Babe charge your phone you're making me nervous

That 15% battery status is giving me anxiety by proxy.

You should be used to it by now. One of the first rules when the internet was created is all phone screenshots must be taken while the battery is low.
- When the Internet was created, not only did phones not have batteries, they had their own power grid, separate from that used by other appliances.

The most sleazy thing it does is that if you want to download or share an image with your friends in, say, a text chain, it brands that image with Reddit crap.

They go completely out of their way to make the app unusable.

You can turn that off in settings. But seriously it’s annoying that you have to do that in the first place
- It's a stupid idea that brings them no value and it's user-hostile.
  I didn't realize it could be turned off though! I guess that's useful for when I hold my nose and scroll quickly through the meme subreddits to find things for my meme text chains.

Oh wow I've not seen the official app in years. That's insane, who on earth is happy using this!?

Sadly, there's a shit ton of people who don't know any better and will stick with reddit as it slowly dies

It is already independent, people just do the stuff they used to do on reddit (eg: complaining about reddit)

The reddit app is garbage compared to other offerings. Too bad they fucked the whole API thing for the 3rd party apps

Right now Relay for Reddit is working on a subscription model and has been granted a extension period. It's currently free to use. Not sure if I'll bother paying for it to stay on Reddit, but for now I can still use Reddit without the official app.
- Cool. I didn't know this! At least some good news for now. I'm digging the Lemmy. It's pretty easy

Random ads in the official reddit app appear way too often.

feature not a bug

What would fit perfectly now is Snapchat-like short vertical videos on repeat. Do it Reddit

The problem is that Reddit Shorts is something I could ABSOLUTELY see happening in the near future
- Kinda already exists. It’s called watch

UPDATE: Apparently Infinity still works across-the-board.

F-Droid keeps nagging me to update Infinity (which I refuse to do). Currently my Galaxy A32 5G is running v5.4.2 and it's still showing up-to-date content every time I refresh. I know from a security standpoint this is a bad idea, but until we come up with a better solution, F-Droid still has it.

ml.docilealligator.infinityforredit
SHA256
0e788e7fd58ef583b32613c61efbba5898ded0ac2aaf7c4919a3b67e61182588 base.apk

Both the APK I download directly from F-Droid and the one I pulled from my phone via ADB share this SHA256SUM hash.

Like less than 10% of the screen is covered in content, lmao

There is literally more content in OPs battery
Less than - if you look OP isn't subscribed to AskReddit, so it's 0% content they actually have subscribed to.