But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off;
\nReddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile phone.
\nInstead, a new overlay popped up, saying, \u201cGet the app to keep
\nusing Reddit.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was no way to skip, bypass, or close the overlay. It did not
\nprovide any instructions or alternatives for continuing to use the
\nmobile web version. What it did offer was a large button I could
\npress to get the app. If I did so, the overlay told me, I would be
\nable to \u201csearch better\u201d and \u201cpersonalize your feed\u201d\u2009\u2014\u2009two things
\nI don\u2019t care to do. […]<\/p>\n
I reached out to the company to ask what was going on. According
\nto a spokesperson, \u201cWe recently started running a test for a small
\nsubset of frequent logged-out mobile users that prompts them to
\ndownload the app after visiting the site. These users are already
\nfamiliar with Reddit and we\u2019ve seen that the experience is much
\nbetter for them in the app. The app offers a more personalized
\nexperience and users can more easily find communities that match
\ntheir interests.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yes, they\u2019re doing this for the users\u2019 benefit. Sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off; Reddit simply would not let me…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-452612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}