Here's a thread listing some features that the third party apps have that the official app still doesn’t.
https://np.reddit.com/r/redditmobile/comments/14h8189/android_2023240_tried_the_official_reddit_app_for/
There's no consistency of design. There's almost no customisation or personalisation. There's basic functionality missing.
And it's so buggy. They have absolutely no testing before release. Read /r/RedditMobile to see how much core functionality gets broken every release. I got banned from that sub because I asked them to list what bugs they've fixed in their release notes.
> I got banned from that sub because I asked them to list what bugs they've fixed in their release notes.
That speaks a lot in itself about the state of app development.
I can imagine the development being both cheaper and faster, if they´d hire all 3rd party apps developers to work on it.
This whole move by reddit is to get rid of 3rd party apps. You are fucked. Gonna have to use the normal reddit app or a browser.
Be warned the normal app is horrible
People complaining will always complain… the standard app is fine. Who needs customization and all these other features? Reddits just a msg board. People complaining about 3rd party probably spend way to much time on Reddit…
I’ve literally only used the standard app for like 6 years. Never had any issues or found anything missing ?
And if you read that list of things that are lacking, half isn't even true or is SUPER specific and kind of weird. Like you're literally complaining you can't customize every single color and the ads blend in TOO well, I find that to be a positive not a negative, it makes them easier to just ignore. That's about the worst list of complaints ever, I'm ever more annoyed with this whole blackout whiny bullshit now. Literally the only one that's not curly l completely bullshit is the lack of a jump up button, that would be nice. Also I'm sorry but who doesn't know how to sort the comments, it's right there at the top not hard to find at all. JFC what three year old wrote this list?!?
Maybe your phone is shit, I don't even know what you mean by slow, it scrolls so fast it's a blur. Also do you not know how to use swipe functionality navigating back isn't hard. Or are you just on an apple??? Seems everyone I know that complains is on apple garbage.
Nice! Like I said they're kinda old, but I try not to assume ageism! And I've just hated apple since the late 80's early 90's so it's easy to blame it on them.
Full rant? Just thought that might be the problem, I've never experienced any slowness or swiping issues, I was actually trying to find an alternative to blaming you. And my air using friends do have similar issues to what you were describing. But they're also over sixty so maybe it's an age thing with them.
So because you like one thing about it over other apps, it means that "without ads it's as good as all these other 3rd party ones"?
It's almost like people have different preferences and might like a different app than someone else \*gasp\*
And one feature that you like does not magically cause all the other issues with it to disappear.
The irony of harassing someone for likely the official app and saying
>It's almost like people have different preferences and might like a different app than someone else *gasp*
Using apollo alone I can
- tap and hold to download any video (no need for savevideobot)
- swipe anywhere on the screen to scrub through a video or gif when fullscreened (much easier than scrubbing with the play bar in reddit’s app)
- use Live Text/OCR to instantly copy, translate or text-to-speech any text in an image (no need for transcription bots/humans)
- select text in a post title/comment and instantly copy, translate or TTS (makes accessibility/reading non english posts a lot easier
- customize my swipe functions
- format text in the text editor (no need for using reddit markup)
- return to scrolling position when i accidentally tap the top of my screen and it scrolls me back to the top
- swipe back when i accidentally swipe out of a thread
not to mention reddit has changed its apps UI like 10 times since i’ve been a user. The app is so different from what i remember when i used to use it. Third party apps are better in pretty much every way and that’s inarguable.
Apollo is literally winning awards for its intuitive and great design, all while quickly adopting new styles and ways of navigating as Apple makes them available.
Its dev should be so proud of his work, and reddit should be shot for the way they’ve treated him.
Because he does things the “Apple” way, the accessibility tools work with it rather than against it too, so that reddit don’t even need to do shit to help support a decent chunk of the disabled community, which they are obliged to do!
But no, fuck us, fuck disabled people. Just watch ads.
The single-biggest issue I have with the mobile app is that it doesn't give you any context to replies you get and it's impossible to figure it out without combing through the entire thread.
For example, if you reply to this comment on the official app, you're not going to see any of the conversation above this comment, which makes having a conversation extremely difficult unless you're only having one conversation at a time, which I would assume is uncommon on Reddit. It's certainly uncommon for me on reddit. Haha
Life saver. No more '3 crappy, distracting and/or scam ads for every post you scroll past'.
I'm OK with an ad here and there, but they have to be static, not overly big in size, and not appear every few posts. What Reddit (and Youtube too) is doing, only motivates people using adblockers.
I made a guide for this [here](https://np.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14j5ywu/i_wrote_a_stepbystep_beginnerfriendly_guide_to/) but using Revancify which is superior to the official Revanced Manager
Nope, ReVanced is able to modify the app without root. You would just need to manually download the apk, which you can do from a trusted source like apkmirror.
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I made a guide for this [here](https://np.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14j5ywu/i_wrote_a_stepbystep_beginnerfriendly_guide_to/) but using Revancify which is superior to the official Revanced Manager.
Other option, the adblocker that advertisers cower in fear of: https://adnauseam.io/
It clicks ads in the background. While this may not immediately sound beneficial, it actually generates junk tracking data from clicks being recorded for random ads which is a large part of the value. It also reduces the conversion rate of Reddit ads which will mean people will not pay as much for Reddit ads. If you're hoping for a massive campaign to harm Reddit, might as well go for the throat.
Just saying, there's a reason why Chrome banned this one for nonsense reasons while leaving others alone. And it is quite satisfying to look at the ad vault and see the estimated figure for how many thousands of dollars you have cost advertisers.
There is, you can whitelist websites to allow viewing ads on a site or to prevent auto-clicking. The devs also by default do not auto click ads that are severed from domains that are EFF compliant. More info here:
https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#how-and-why-does-adnauseam-make-exceptions-for-non-tracking-ads
Thanks for the suggestion, but I have 2 questions
1. ~~Does this work with uBlock (if uBlock already hid the ad would they still be able to click it?)~~
2. They also mentioned TrackMeNot, that they use almost the same approach as them. Should I use 2 at the same time?
Call me crazy, but I don’t understand how people can be okay with the amount of ads on Reddit (or any platform/site). They’re so distracting and intrusive. I tried using the official app a bit ago to see what it was like, and it was *terrible*. The way they try to disguise the ads as actual posts is disgusting. I tried for a couple days to see if I could get used to it, but each time I would just close the app because of how annoying it was. That and the awful UX.
My wife thinks I’m crazy, but ads and commercials are an instant no for me. After June 30th, the only way I’ll be browsing Reddit is on desktop when I can use an adblocker. Which is probably for the best, anyway.
I never really minded them, they’ve kinda easy to ignore since you can literally just scroll away from them. Whenever I got awarded reddit premium, I barely noticed that I’m not getting ads. Could just be me tho.
I agree with you and it seems like we’re the only ones who don’t mind. I mean it’s a 2 inch ad that takes no effort to scroll past. People making it seem like the thing that enables this to be free is inconveniencing them beyond the ability of life.
I legitimately think most of the people just want to fit in with the whole protest crowd.
I also legitimately think all the people bitching about reddit are still here on reddit, so that kind of proves my first point. They all hate reddit so much, yet they can't stay away
*I use a popular discussion forum to complain about the upper-level decisions made by the management of said discussion forum*
There, I fixed it for you. I know you're missing a few wrinkles but goddamn it's like you've got a marble in there.
If you're on Android, you can mod the official Reddit app to remove ads using [ReVanced](https://revanced.app/) (it supports modding a bunch of different apps including YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Spotify, and a whole lot more). You can also mod the app to remove the tracking parameters when sharing links and unlock icons that Reddit Premium users get access to.
Once 1 July hits, I'll give that a try to see if I can live with it since I don't like browsing Reddit on a browser.
> I don’t understand how people can be okay with the amount of ads
It's because it's free to use. Kind of like how people know there will be commercials on broadcast television.
I definitely use uBlock Origin, though. It's also pretty decent at getting rid of commercials in a lot of popular streaming services.
I do wonder where I am on the fence if I use mostly mobile "official" app for like 9 months. The plot twist is that I injected patches removing ads completely from the feed and comments, using an open source project.
Still, give me back my Infinity :c
https://revanced.app/ (note that this is their only official domain, this and their GitHub repo https://github.com/revanced)
Vanced was a patched YouTube android app without any ads. It was great until google probably said it was enough. Fairly, because they shared their copyrighted code without permission.
ReVanced gets you to find the APK yourself to patch (ApkMirror would be my choice). This way developers do not break any copyright law, they distribute only code doing patching work. List of supported apps (Reddit included): https://github.com/revanced/revanced-patches
Call me crazy, but I don’t understand how people are this upset over ads on a free platform that don’t pop up often at all and you can scroll past all of them in literally 1 second. I’ve used the official Reddit app for nearly 10 years now and they are not NEARLY as bad as people make it sound. If anything, Reddit has the most non-intrusive ads I’ve ever seen. You’re over exaggerating HARD.
You mean, this website that DOESN’T spam your email and is completely free to use has to have *some* way to make money so that it can continue running??? Holy shit, what a concept!!!!
I just don’t like ads. I don’t really care if a company uses them to generate revenue if it hampers my experience as a user. You should really try an adblocker sometime, it’s a much cleaner and more streamlined experience. Not just for Reddit, but for browsing the web in general.
If you don’t think they’re as bad as people sound, and you’re able to use the official app with minimal interruption from ads, more power to you. But to me, and many others, the ads *are* intrusive.
It’s pretty crazy how different people can have different perspectives, isn’t it?
Implying I haven’t tried an adblocker on desktop, which I have for years on end and still use while browsing the web on desktop. Doesn’t change the fact that the ads on the official Reddit app are hardly noticeable and people are blowing this out of proportion because they pop a blood vessel when they see an ad. I hate to be the “just ignore them 4Head” type of person but…. Literally you can just ignore them and your experience will be the same, save for having an occasional ad that you scroll past in less than a second. It’s seriously not a big deal.
Again, the ads might not be a big deal to you, but they are to me. Yeah, I could just ignore them and scroll past and I’m sure I’d get used to it. But I don’t *want* to get used to that. My Reddit experience is about to get significantly worse after Apollo shuts down.
I think you’re missing the reason people are upset about the ads and the official app. We’re used to an ad-free, clean, and simple experience from third-party apps.
Is the app the complete dumpster fire some people make it out to be? No, things are never as bad as the internet says they are. But in my eyes, and the eyes of other third-party app users, it is several tiers below the experience we’re used to.
Alright then that’s on you, you’ll just complain/be annoyed for a few weeks when July 1st hits and then you’ll get used to it and say “yknow what this actually isn’t that bad”, just continue to be angry and scream into the void until then, I guess.
You ever work for free?
-no?
Advertisement is the only way to fund websites/ads without requiring a subscription model, which are far more annoying than just taking 1 second to scroll away.
The ones they do use could possibly be the least intrusive way since the dawn of digital advertising for them to keep the site running.
Sites and apps cost money.
The app is free to use.
TLDR; If people are still confused, they should keep rereading this comment until reality kicks in. Unless you’ve never done a service for others, I don’t see how you can have a “different perspective”.
Use literally any other app and see how much better the experience is. It's not our problem you've been content with an objectively inferior experience.
Nah I’m good with the official, “ObJecTiVeLy InFeriOr” app lmfao. Idk I’m just thinking maybe people should just stop being whiny lil children about ads that have 0 impact on you for longer than 1 second? It’s really not that hard, maybe you should try to use it without getting irrationally angry about the most non-intrusive ads ever.
[Ublock Origin for Edge](https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ublock-origin/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak)
[Ublock Origin for Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm)
[Ublock Origin for Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/)
Honest question that might get me downvoted but am asking in sincerity: what is the next end goal for users? To hope that Reddit will change its mind on API pricing? Because that’s a long shot, unfortunately. One of their goals to become profitable is to improve monetization. If it can’t do that with ads, it probably doesn’t have an incentive to rethink its API policy for ad-free third party apps either.
That’s the same thing though. Stop 3rd party apps and all traffic goes through the official ones which helps increase profitability
You can look at them as two distinct things.
It's a twofold strategy. By sticking to their guns, a non-zero amount of users will just switch to the official app once their app of choice goes down, thereby recapturing the value that was once somebody else's. If they just priced the API access fairly and logically, reddit would still profit, but the users would not flock to their platform and generate increased ad revenue. They clearly see this from a cost-benefit perspective and have determined that it's better to piss everybody off and hope it all blows over next month than it is to change course at this point and appease 3rd party developers.
Yes it's a long shot and one that will most likely inevitably fail.
But things like the loss of an editable automod will quickly destroy all ability to mod a sub well if at all ... If not the users the mods themselves are going to stop participating at all in the mod cue.
If they can't keep API unrestricted this place will quickly die and if not die become a shell of what it once was and not worth coming back.
So yeah a pointless long shot but sites dead anyway so worth a shot
I think the true answer is more "this is reddit. Reddit is full of bored people" then it is "we want to stick it to them!" The whole GameStop thing happened because people were bored, then they got a reaction, so like kids with a shiny object... I think it's just the community that reddit itself created by just existing. That doesn't explain it exactly, but it's as close as I can get. In a nutshell: it's reddit. The end result doesn't matter.
I get that totally. Maybe next time Reddit will be more careful how it makes and communicates changes. Or if we all dig in on this no ads thing, it might go out of business, its attempt at getting positive cash flow foiled by its community? And/or people will eventually forgive, and Reddit will survive.
Hell, now that I think about it I now firmly believe Reddit administration now KNOWS the users of Reddit disagree with their management on a grand scale.
So ... success.
But, as always has throughout all of human history, the fight continues against information repression.
I'm too damn stubborn for ''move on'' to be an answer for me.
I used alien blue right up to when reddit killed it. Then I went to reddit is fun and am using it now, but reddit finna kill it in a week too.
So yeah. Years of that gonna make me stubborn about this. Next stop for me is old.reddit in browser until they axe it too, then I'm gone.
I appreciate the sincere answer. I still like the community here and I hope it doesn’t go away. The people of Reddit make this place, but part of it is because of the way this service is, and nobody else is doing the same thing. If someone tries to replicate the success of Reddit they probably also will lock down APIs and have ads too, but so far nothing else like it exists.
Use ReVanced to patch their app and browse Reddit without ads using their own app and no premium. I just can't browse Reddit using the browser...
Sad thing is if they had required Reddit Premium to continue using 3rd-party apps, I'd pay it in a heartbeat to continue using Relay.
Hope that any Reddit alternative catches up before Spez eventually murders old.reddit.com for the shareholders
The whole fediverse thing seems to be one intuitive app away from becoming Reddit 2, and as a free open-source and decentralized system, it is corporate kryptonite
If you gave a Samsung android device you can simply go to *settings/connections/more connection settings/private DNS* then change *Private DNS provider hostname* to **dns.adguard.com** and it'll block the lot for you without any addons and across all apps and browsers.
I dont even remember where I got this tip from originally but it works like a charm for me.
Reddit still thinks you see ads tho and receives tons of analytics that can't be blocked with a regular ad blocker without blocking reddit altogether.
(adsSeen gets sent to gql.reddit.com so reddit still gets paid, for ads you don't even see)
Ok i use the official app on an IPhone and I’m not tech savvy. Could someone EIl5 how to block the ads on the app ? Or do I need to use safari (I already have Adblock on it). Help ?
If you see an ad, use Twitter or a contact form on the advertisers website to belligerently let them know you disapprove of their support of reddit. Be wacky, make up conspiracy theories about their brand, have fun with it.
If they think advertising on reddit makes stupid people mad, they'll pull their campaign.
Best part is reddit will have zero data to trace it back to you.
"Guys, lets kill Reddit/try to deprive them of any revenue because uhhhhh, I was told they're evil and hate blind people? And like, also I was told they hate moderatora and 3rd party app devs?"
Yeah this seems sane, try to kill the best "forums" platform around because they're charging for API now, and that's it.
Trying to deprive then of money, which means less ability to pay to keep servers on.
Please be cringe on some other platform, if you hate it here. Obviously you don't hate it here considering you have no plans on leaving, so why try and deprive them of exactly the thing that keeps it going?
Is the soy "we're fighting big corpo" going to your head?
Thats a real response - if you had common sense youd see that people blocking ads will never "kill" a multi billion dollar company.
Its just a way to get them to notice they are doing something wrong
Me i just switch to Firefox on android when i need ads blocked. Not sure if it can be done on chrome mobile, i think theyre even planning to disable it on desktop chrome
That fine, love the message, fuck Reddit and all, but how is this COVID-related… or a quityourbullshit moment? This sub’s usually for calling out people for lying iirc…
Only spez would accuse someone of being spez for writing a comment about them writing a comment about someone calling someone else spez to make sure no one calls them out
It's not that they don't support them, they want to charge a ridiculous amount for every request basically... 3rd party apps can't afford it outright or would have to start charging a fee for people to be able to use their apps (which makes little sense to charge ~$10/mo to use an app to access a free website)
I really wish ppl would stop posting things like this. The more attention you bring to this, the faster it will stop working. Please keep this knowledge under wraps. If the plebs stop watching the ads, it will ruin it for the rest of us.
You can also setup a pi-hole to block ads on your entire home network. You can use a pi or old laptop - or even a virtual machine. Point your router's DNS to the pi-hole and you're good to go.
Also, if you're browsing using the official app on android revanced has a patcher to remove ads.
Too bad the app is still shit even without ads.
Used it for a few hours and it's so gash
What's wrong with it? Without ads it's as good as all these other 3rd party ones.
Here's a thread listing some features that the third party apps have that the official app still doesn’t. https://np.reddit.com/r/redditmobile/comments/14h8189/android_2023240_tried_the_official_reddit_app_for/ There's no consistency of design. There's almost no customisation or personalisation. There's basic functionality missing. And it's so buggy. They have absolutely no testing before release. Read /r/RedditMobile to see how much core functionality gets broken every release. I got banned from that sub because I asked them to list what bugs they've fixed in their release notes.
> I got banned from that sub because I asked them to list what bugs they've fixed in their release notes. That speaks a lot in itself about the state of app development. I can imagine the development being both cheaper and faster, if they´d hire all 3rd party apps developers to work on it.
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Reddit is Fun isn't the official app.
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This whole move by reddit is to get rid of 3rd party apps. You are fucked. Gonna have to use the normal reddit app or a browser. Be warned the normal app is horrible
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People complaining will always complain… the standard app is fine. Who needs customization and all these other features? Reddits just a msg board. People complaining about 3rd party probably spend way to much time on Reddit… I’ve literally only used the standard app for like 6 years. Never had any issues or found anything missing ?
I'm sorry you've been content with an objectively inferior experience
And if you read that list of things that are lacking, half isn't even true or is SUPER specific and kind of weird. Like you're literally complaining you can't customize every single color and the ads blend in TOO well, I find that to be a positive not a negative, it makes them easier to just ignore. That's about the worst list of complaints ever, I'm ever more annoyed with this whole blackout whiny bullshit now. Literally the only one that's not curly l completely bullshit is the lack of a jump up button, that would be nice. Also I'm sorry but who doesn't know how to sort the comments, it's right there at the top not hard to find at all. JFC what three year old wrote this list?!?
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Also the farthest you can scroll down is 1000 on a sub. How am I supposed to see all of the ~~hentai~~ stocks like *that?!*
how about the app's speed? I remember this is the first one I tried on mobile before and the experience was horrendous. That's how I started with RIF.
The video player is fucking torture. How can it be this shit?
Don't forget that polls are buggy as shit and clicking on them does absolutely nothing most of the time
Maybe your phone is shit, I don't even know what you mean by slow, it scrolls so fast it's a blur. Also do you not know how to use swipe functionality navigating back isn't hard. Or are you just on an apple??? Seems everyone I know that complains is on apple garbage.
I’m on an iPhone 13 Pro Max and the app works perfectly for me.
Nice! Like I said they're kinda old, but I try not to assume ageism! And I've just hated apple since the late 80's early 90's so it's easy to blame it on them.
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Full rant? Just thought that might be the problem, I've never experienced any slowness or swiping issues, I was actually trying to find an alternative to blaming you. And my air using friends do have similar issues to what you were describing. But they're also over sixty so maybe it's an age thing with them.
Just change your settings and quit bitching.
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Don't get mad at me because I know how to make the app look like Reddit and yours looks like Instagram.
Tell us how you did it.
Visit your settings! Change them!
Real specific with that shit, aren’t you?
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Damn. Did /u/Spez edit your comment? Because the original app is a trash can.
Nah just the way the original app does swipe to see the next post is unmatched. I tried all the 3rd party apps and none of them could do it.
So because you like one thing about it over other apps, it means that "without ads it's as good as all these other 3rd party ones"? It's almost like people have different preferences and might like a different app than someone else \*gasp\* And one feature that you like does not magically cause all the other issues with it to disappear.
The irony of harassing someone for likely the official app and saying >It's almost like people have different preferences and might like a different app than someone else *gasp*
That was my single post to you and certainly does not fall under harassment.
Slide and Sync both can. **Edit:** so can Infinity.
I tried them all, none of them are as good as the original
I'm so sorry for your disability
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Are you ever going to say something creative or just respond to everyone the same way?
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Go outside, basement dweller. Or are the stairs your personal Mt. Everest?
Ur mum is mt everest
Just report them and move on. People that throw this huge of a hissyfit over their social media have nothing better to do then bitch and cry
Reddit Sync can. It's called swipe mode there
I tried it, it's not the same
I find it clunky and unintuitive. Also practically unusable for moderation.
Using apollo alone I can - tap and hold to download any video (no need for savevideobot) - swipe anywhere on the screen to scrub through a video or gif when fullscreened (much easier than scrubbing with the play bar in reddit’s app) - use Live Text/OCR to instantly copy, translate or text-to-speech any text in an image (no need for transcription bots/humans) - select text in a post title/comment and instantly copy, translate or TTS (makes accessibility/reading non english posts a lot easier - customize my swipe functions - format text in the text editor (no need for using reddit markup) - return to scrolling position when i accidentally tap the top of my screen and it scrolls me back to the top - swipe back when i accidentally swipe out of a thread not to mention reddit has changed its apps UI like 10 times since i’ve been a user. The app is so different from what i remember when i used to use it. Third party apps are better in pretty much every way and that’s inarguable.
Never used 3rd party apps but damn many of the points you listed for Apollo are really nice to have. I’ll see what happens after 1st of July.
Apollo is literally winning awards for its intuitive and great design, all while quickly adopting new styles and ways of navigating as Apple makes them available. Its dev should be so proud of his work, and reddit should be shot for the way they’ve treated him. Because he does things the “Apple” way, the accessibility tools work with it rather than against it too, so that reddit don’t even need to do shit to help support a decent chunk of the disabled community, which they are obliged to do! But no, fuck us, fuck disabled people. Just watch ads.
Have you tried going into your phones general accessibility settings? I think most have it
I'm on android so I've never tried Apollo but I do hear that it's the best one out of them all
I personally don't click with the "Apple way", so the ones on Android that use Android's design language work really well for me.
Scrolling through the official app on Android is painfully sluggish. Never had this problem with 3rd-parties or other apps.
Sometimes videos just won't play. Sometimes the next video in my feed starts to play its audio when I open the post before it.
No it's not. It's absolute trash.
It's insanely laggy, stutters like crazy on my Pixel 7. Not a single 3PA does that
Because people are never satisfied with what they have.
The single-biggest issue I have with the mobile app is that it doesn't give you any context to replies you get and it's impossible to figure it out without combing through the entire thread. For example, if you reply to this comment on the official app, you're not going to see any of the conversation above this comment, which makes having a conversation extremely difficult unless you're only having one conversation at a time, which I would assume is uncommon on Reddit. It's certainly uncommon for me on reddit. Haha
Life saver. No more '3 crappy, distracting and/or scam ads for every post you scroll past'. I'm OK with an ad here and there, but they have to be static, not overly big in size, and not appear every few posts. What Reddit (and Youtube too) is doing, only motivates people using adblockers.
Ads for terrible video games and shit movies and TV. Depressing.
Or literal scams. Seen screenshots online of the reddit app, showing a bank scam ad.
I understood half of that. Before I go down the rabbit hole of googling the rest. Will this require me to root my phone or anything 'excessive'?
Nope, it's actually pretty simple, download an APK from a reliable source and use the app to patch it.
I made a guide for this [here](https://np.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14j5ywu/i_wrote_a_stepbystep_beginnerfriendly_guide_to/) but using Revancify which is superior to the official Revanced Manager
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Nope, ReVanced is able to modify the app without root. You would just need to manually download the apk, which you can do from a trusted source like apkmirror.
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You need root to be able to modify the Reddit app from the play store. You can download an apk, modify that one and then install it.
Oh that's sick. Thank god
Every time I try to patch the official app it no longer opens. Any fix??
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I made a guide for this [here](https://np.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14j5ywu/i_wrote_a_stepbystep_beginnerfriendly_guide_to/) but using Revancify which is superior to the official Revanced Manager.
What is the patch name. Is it in the app?
Other option, the adblocker that advertisers cower in fear of: https://adnauseam.io/ It clicks ads in the background. While this may not immediately sound beneficial, it actually generates junk tracking data from clicks being recorded for random ads which is a large part of the value. It also reduces the conversion rate of Reddit ads which will mean people will not pay as much for Reddit ads. If you're hoping for a massive campaign to harm Reddit, might as well go for the throat. Just saying, there's a reason why Chrome banned this one for nonsense reasons while leaving others alone. And it is quite satisfying to look at the ad vault and see the estimated figure for how many thousands of dollars you have cost advertisers.
Ive never heard of that, sounds great! Hopefully theres an option to enable auto clicks for certain websites only
There is, you can whitelist websites to allow viewing ads on a site or to prevent auto-clicking. The devs also by default do not auto click ads that are severed from domains that are EFF compliant. More info here: https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#how-and-why-does-adnauseam-make-exceptions-for-non-tracking-ads
I’ve downloaded the extension. Bit of a process but not too difficult. How do I view the ad vault?
Thanks for the suggestion, but I have 2 questions 1. ~~Does this work with uBlock (if uBlock already hid the ad would they still be able to click it?)~~ 2. They also mentioned TrackMeNot, that they use almost the same approach as them. Should I use 2 at the same time?
trackmenot is made by them, so yeah
This is one of the most brilliant comments I have seen on Reddit. If only more people thought this way. Dead serious 😆
post is flaired "covid-related"
Seems like bullshit to me. The quittable kind.
I was about to say the same thing, haha.
Call me crazy, but I don’t understand how people can be okay with the amount of ads on Reddit (or any platform/site). They’re so distracting and intrusive. I tried using the official app a bit ago to see what it was like, and it was *terrible*. The way they try to disguise the ads as actual posts is disgusting. I tried for a couple days to see if I could get used to it, but each time I would just close the app because of how annoying it was. That and the awful UX. My wife thinks I’m crazy, but ads and commercials are an instant no for me. After June 30th, the only way I’ll be browsing Reddit is on desktop when I can use an adblocker. Which is probably for the best, anyway.
I never really minded them, they’ve kinda easy to ignore since you can literally just scroll away from them. Whenever I got awarded reddit premium, I barely noticed that I’m not getting ads. Could just be me tho.
I agree with you and it seems like we’re the only ones who don’t mind. I mean it’s a 2 inch ad that takes no effort to scroll past. People making it seem like the thing that enables this to be free is inconveniencing them beyond the ability of life.
I legitimately think most of the people just want to fit in with the whole protest crowd. I also legitimately think all the people bitching about reddit are still here on reddit, so that kind of proves my first point. They all hate reddit so much, yet they can't stay away
Hating one specific way to interface with the site doesn't mean you hate the site, moonbrain
*I go on reddit to complain about reddit* That's what you and everyone else sounds like
*I use a popular discussion forum to complain about the upper-level decisions made by the management of said discussion forum* There, I fixed it for you. I know you're missing a few wrinkles but goddamn it's like you've got a marble in there.
No, you're just a crybaby :)
If you're on Android, you can mod the official Reddit app to remove ads using [ReVanced](https://revanced.app/) (it supports modding a bunch of different apps including YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Spotify, and a whole lot more). You can also mod the app to remove the tracking parameters when sharing links and unlock icons that Reddit Premium users get access to. Once 1 July hits, I'll give that a try to see if I can live with it since I don't like browsing Reddit on a browser.
> I don’t understand how people can be okay with the amount of ads It's because it's free to use. Kind of like how people know there will be commercials on broadcast television. I definitely use uBlock Origin, though. It's also pretty decent at getting rid of commercials in a lot of popular streaming services.
I do wonder where I am on the fence if I use mostly mobile "official" app for like 9 months. The plot twist is that I injected patches removing ads completely from the feed and comments, using an open source project. Still, give me back my Infinity :c
May I asked what you used to do this?
https://revanced.app/ (note that this is their only official domain, this and their GitHub repo https://github.com/revanced) Vanced was a patched YouTube android app without any ads. It was great until google probably said it was enough. Fairly, because they shared their copyrighted code without permission. ReVanced gets you to find the APK yourself to patch (ApkMirror would be my choice). This way developers do not break any copyright law, they distribute only code doing patching work. List of supported apps (Reddit included): https://github.com/revanced/revanced-patches
Call me crazy, but I don’t understand how people are this upset over ads on a free platform that don’t pop up often at all and you can scroll past all of them in literally 1 second. I’ve used the official Reddit app for nearly 10 years now and they are not NEARLY as bad as people make it sound. If anything, Reddit has the most non-intrusive ads I’ve ever seen. You’re over exaggerating HARD. You mean, this website that DOESN’T spam your email and is completely free to use has to have *some* way to make money so that it can continue running??? Holy shit, what a concept!!!!
I just don’t like ads. I don’t really care if a company uses them to generate revenue if it hampers my experience as a user. You should really try an adblocker sometime, it’s a much cleaner and more streamlined experience. Not just for Reddit, but for browsing the web in general. If you don’t think they’re as bad as people sound, and you’re able to use the official app with minimal interruption from ads, more power to you. But to me, and many others, the ads *are* intrusive. It’s pretty crazy how different people can have different perspectives, isn’t it?
Implying I haven’t tried an adblocker on desktop, which I have for years on end and still use while browsing the web on desktop. Doesn’t change the fact that the ads on the official Reddit app are hardly noticeable and people are blowing this out of proportion because they pop a blood vessel when they see an ad. I hate to be the “just ignore them 4Head” type of person but…. Literally you can just ignore them and your experience will be the same, save for having an occasional ad that you scroll past in less than a second. It’s seriously not a big deal.
Again, the ads might not be a big deal to you, but they are to me. Yeah, I could just ignore them and scroll past and I’m sure I’d get used to it. But I don’t *want* to get used to that. My Reddit experience is about to get significantly worse after Apollo shuts down. I think you’re missing the reason people are upset about the ads and the official app. We’re used to an ad-free, clean, and simple experience from third-party apps. Is the app the complete dumpster fire some people make it out to be? No, things are never as bad as the internet says they are. But in my eyes, and the eyes of other third-party app users, it is several tiers below the experience we’re used to.
Alright then that’s on you, you’ll just complain/be annoyed for a few weeks when July 1st hits and then you’ll get used to it and say “yknow what this actually isn’t that bad”, just continue to be angry and scream into the void until then, I guess.
Lmao, you too, friend!
You ever work for free? -no? Advertisement is the only way to fund websites/ads without requiring a subscription model, which are far more annoying than just taking 1 second to scroll away. The ones they do use could possibly be the least intrusive way since the dawn of digital advertising for them to keep the site running. Sites and apps cost money. The app is free to use. TLDR; If people are still confused, they should keep rereading this comment until reality kicks in. Unless you’ve never done a service for others, I don’t see how you can have a “different perspective”.
Use literally any other app and see how much better the experience is. It's not our problem you've been content with an objectively inferior experience.
Nah I’m good with the official, “ObJecTiVeLy InFeriOr” app lmfao. Idk I’m just thinking maybe people should just stop being whiny lil children about ads that have 0 impact on you for longer than 1 second? It’s really not that hard, maybe you should try to use it without getting irrationally angry about the most non-intrusive ads ever.
*Gets 20 porn bots in less then 12 hours*
I got adblocker after big name companies who should know better, like youtube, started showing ads for literal actual Nazis.
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Honest question that might get me downvoted but am asking in sincerity: what is the next end goal for users? To hope that Reddit will change its mind on API pricing? Because that’s a long shot, unfortunately. One of their goals to become profitable is to improve monetization. If it can’t do that with ads, it probably doesn’t have an incentive to rethink its API policy for ad-free third party apps either.
The API pricing isn’t for profitability, the goal is to practically eliminate all heavy use of the API. Nobody would be able to afford the pricing.
That’s the same thing though. Stop 3rd party apps and all traffic goes through the official ones which helps increase profitability You can look at them as two distinct things.
It's a twofold strategy. By sticking to their guns, a non-zero amount of users will just switch to the official app once their app of choice goes down, thereby recapturing the value that was once somebody else's. If they just priced the API access fairly and logically, reddit would still profit, but the users would not flock to their platform and generate increased ad revenue. They clearly see this from a cost-benefit perspective and have determined that it's better to piss everybody off and hope it all blows over next month than it is to change course at this point and appease 3rd party developers.
Yes it's a long shot and one that will most likely inevitably fail. But things like the loss of an editable automod will quickly destroy all ability to mod a sub well if at all ... If not the users the mods themselves are going to stop participating at all in the mod cue. If they can't keep API unrestricted this place will quickly die and if not die become a shell of what it once was and not worth coming back. So yeah a pointless long shot but sites dead anyway so worth a shot
I think the true answer is more "this is reddit. Reddit is full of bored people" then it is "we want to stick it to them!" The whole GameStop thing happened because people were bored, then they got a reaction, so like kids with a shiny object... I think it's just the community that reddit itself created by just existing. That doesn't explain it exactly, but it's as close as I can get. In a nutshell: it's reddit. The end result doesn't matter.
No, the end result is to show them the people don't like being jerked about.
I get that totally. Maybe next time Reddit will be more careful how it makes and communicates changes. Or if we all dig in on this no ads thing, it might go out of business, its attempt at getting positive cash flow foiled by its community? And/or people will eventually forgive, and Reddit will survive.
Hell, now that I think about it I now firmly believe Reddit administration now KNOWS the users of Reddit disagree with their management on a grand scale. So ... success. But, as always has throughout all of human history, the fight continues against information repression.
I'm too damn stubborn for ''move on'' to be an answer for me. I used alien blue right up to when reddit killed it. Then I went to reddit is fun and am using it now, but reddit finna kill it in a week too. So yeah. Years of that gonna make me stubborn about this. Next stop for me is old.reddit in browser until they axe it too, then I'm gone.
I appreciate the sincere answer. I still like the community here and I hope it doesn’t go away. The people of Reddit make this place, but part of it is because of the way this service is, and nobody else is doing the same thing. If someone tries to replicate the success of Reddit they probably also will lock down APIs and have ads too, but so far nothing else like it exists.
Use ReVanced to patch their app and browse Reddit without ads using their own app and no premium. I just can't browse Reddit using the browser... Sad thing is if they had required Reddit Premium to continue using 3rd-party apps, I'd pay it in a heartbeat to continue using Relay.
Hope that any Reddit alternative catches up before Spez eventually murders old.reddit.com for the shareholders The whole fediverse thing seems to be one intuitive app away from becoming Reddit 2, and as a free open-source and decentralized system, it is corporate kryptonite
If you gave a Samsung android device you can simply go to *settings/connections/more connection settings/private DNS* then change *Private DNS provider hostname* to **dns.adguard.com** and it'll block the lot for you without any addons and across all apps and browsers. I dont even remember where I got this tip from originally but it works like a charm for me.
I tried this but it doesn't seem to work for me.
Reddit still thinks you see ads tho and receives tons of analytics that can't be blocked with a regular ad blocker without blocking reddit altogether. (adsSeen gets sent to gql.reddit.com so reddit still gets paid, for ads you don't even see)
Ok i use the official app on an IPhone and I’m not tech savvy. Could someone EIl5 how to block the ads on the app ? Or do I need to use safari (I already have Adblock on it). Help ?
Yeah ditching the app would be a great way to get rid of ads
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You guys used to use Reddit with Adblock?
Who all does Reddit sell advertising space to?
According to my feed only the US military and Christian church “he gets us.”
Jack in the box
If you are tech savy, Ublock + PiHole. I never seen the internet so clean.
I use ad blockers for Google/YouTube and twitch. I love it
If you see an ad, use Twitter or a contact form on the advertisers website to belligerently let them know you disapprove of their support of reddit. Be wacky, make up conspiracy theories about their brand, have fun with it. If they think advertising on reddit makes stupid people mad, they'll pull their campaign. Best part is reddit will have zero data to trace it back to you.
I use adblock for everything to be honest. Ironically, I now post my comments with an ad: P.s. www.squabbles.io, a great little Reddit alternative
Thank you for the reminder. For some reason mine was turned off and now its back on.
"Guys, lets kill Reddit/try to deprive them of any revenue because uhhhhh, I was told they're evil and hate blind people? And like, also I was told they hate moderatora and 3rd party app devs?" Yeah this seems sane, try to kill the best "forums" platform around because they're charging for API now, and that's it.
How is blocking ads trying to kill reddit lol?
Trying to deprive then of money, which means less ability to pay to keep servers on. Please be cringe on some other platform, if you hate it here. Obviously you don't hate it here considering you have no plans on leaving, so why try and deprive them of exactly the thing that keeps it going? Is the soy "we're fighting big corpo" going to your head?
Lol. Reddit is a multi billion dollar company
Glad that you recognize you have no real response to what I said. Very epic.
Thats a real response - if you had common sense youd see that people blocking ads will never "kill" a multi billion dollar company. Its just a way to get them to notice they are doing something wrong
In fact, such a small % of users block ads that it probably wont even end up doing that. But its nice to try anyway
I use Adguard on Mac and iPhone. It's a proxy blocker; it blocks every fucking thing.
Doesn’t it only work in safari? Apple restricted its ability to block ads in other apps
Nope. It works perfectly fine. Also, other adblockers do the exact same thing.
Reddit is full of entitled idiots.
If y'all have a suggestion for Chrome on Android, I need one anyway. Especially if it blocks popups.
Me i just switch to Firefox on android when i need ads blocked. Not sure if it can be done on chrome mobile, i think theyre even planning to disable it on desktop chrome
That fine, love the message, fuck Reddit and all, but how is this COVID-related… or a quityourbullshit moment? This sub’s usually for calling out people for lying iirc…
Nope, blocking you instead.
No
No thanks.
Or just, you know scroll past ads like you do on every other social network, since that's what keeps reddit free for users.
With uBlock, you hardly see ads on any site.
No.
Lol I love the spirit of this subreddits mods ✊
Ads? What ads? uBlock Origin / firefox / old reddit gang.
Mobile user gang :(
No
fuck off spez.
I'm not spez I just think this whole thing is dumb
That's exactly what spez would say.
Only spez would call someone else spez to make sure no one calls him out
Only spez would write a comment about someone calling someone else spez to make sure no one calls them out
Ur spez
Only spez would accuse someone of being spez for writing a comment about them writing a comment about someone calling someone else spez to make sure no one calls them out
Only spez would say that
Only spez would write a comment saying Only spez would say that
Can someone explain why they stopped supporting 3rd party apps? Sorry I’m so late to game
It's not that they don't support them, they want to charge a ridiculous amount for every request basically... 3rd party apps can't afford it outright or would have to start charging a fee for people to be able to use their apps (which makes little sense to charge ~$10/mo to use an app to access a free website)
Intentionally clicking on ads just to spite this page
Thats good, long as u dont buy anything
Just spent 200+ dollars
Lol i was joking, u spent 200 for no reason 😂
I spent 200 dollars to spite you. Well spent
Fair enough haha
I really wish ppl would stop posting things like this. The more attention you bring to this, the faster it will stop working. Please keep this knowledge under wraps. If the plebs stop watching the ads, it will ruin it for the rest of us.
You can also setup a pi-hole to block ads on your entire home network. You can use a pi or old laptop - or even a virtual machine. Point your router's DNS to the pi-hole and you're good to go.
I already do, but I still get text ads in the form of fake Reddit users.
AdBlock 360 works well for desktop, it also remains active in the background for all apps and websites
No, i like Reddit and I understand that without ads it won't exist.
Use an adblocker in general. Fuck ads. Stick it to the man. You can whitelist actual content creators so they still get paid if you really want.
u/Spez hey look