Until they close it down…

  • CleoTheWizard@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I don’t use reddit on desktop often. Is there a reason they’d stop supporting it? Other than just not caring to provide updates of course

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      1 year ago

      New Reddit has a lot more tracing and BI, tracking user behavior in order to suggest ads/content. It’s part of why the New site is so much slower to scroll through, but it does mean a lot more data for Reddit to work with regarding their users.

      Not to mention the dark UX patterns like hiding comments behind a More button, which itself is tracked and may serve an ad alongside the comments fetched.

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      They may remove it to funnel more people towards new reddit, which lets them serveore ads and get more trackimg data than the old reddit site.