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Sadly Reddit is locking down the personal finance subreddit behind their app so they can monetize it better. I find this article to have interesting timing as the readership on that subreddit must be going way down nowadays.


... what? I can get to it from the website and Apollo perfectly well.


I must be in the bad A/B bucket because I see 'This community is available in the app' and haven't been able to use Reddit a lot on mobile for weeks / months?

Google gives me this article about the new trend: https://reclaimthenet.org/this-community-is-available-in-the...


Based on that article, I'm guessing this is only a thing in the new mobile site. There are a somewhat ridiculous number of ways to browse reddit these days (desktop new/old, mobile new/old, app at least) and they all seem to offer a different set of features. I've used i.reddit.com on mobile for many years now and it hasn't been impacted by any of the nonsense that reddit has been pushing lately (yet).


I know that if I spend extra time I can edit the URL but honestly this reddit block has allowed me to just stop browsing reddit unless absolutely necessary. A positive thing in a way...


I'm guessing you're on your phone? I get prompts urging me to use their app, but I have been able to opt for the browser instead, and I use Tor fairly frequently (phone and desktop). Have you tried old.reddit.com instead?

Maybe it's specifically targeting certain browsers/platforms. I'm on Firefox on Android, maybe they're specifically targeting iOS?


I'm also on Firefox on Android and have been getting that block for quite some time...


Works great in RedReader and it's much better than dumpster fine that Reddit own app is.




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