As quoted from the linked post.

It looks like you’re part of one of our experiments. The logged-in mobile web experience is currently unavailable for a portion of users. To access the site you can log on via desktop, the mobile apps, or wait for the experiment to conclude.

This is separate from the API issue. This will actually BLOCK you from even viewing reddit on your phone without using the official app.

Archive.org link in case the post is removed.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230611224026/https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/helpdid_reddit_just_destroy_mobile_browser_access/jim40zg/

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    Their approach here seems inherently broken. People aren’t going to use the app they don’t want to use.

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      15-year reddit veteran here. Spez thinks us old-timers are freeloaders for continuing to prefer old.reddit and the third-party apps. The truth is, that site is dead and what Lemmy offers now is closer to that original vision than current reddit ever will be. Reddit is Dead. Long live Lemmy.

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        I’ll be honest: I always prefered the “new Reddit” over the old one. With that said, the App sucks balls and it going public (as it always does) killed reddit within a few days. Now we just hope lemmy catches on and fixes some of the inherent issues with decentralization.

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            On Desktop, 100% yes. On Mobile, Browsers in general suck pretty hard, and i often much prefer the app. If only for Notifications and recent apps being easier to manage than tabs.

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              Makes sense, I’m to lazy for pi-hole or what so ever to be ad free on mobile. But I also hate apps for what could be a website, so I used old reddit on mobile.

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                I use Blokada 5 to block ads on my phone and it works pretty well. That version is free, but Blokada 6 is their subscription based blocker which is why I specify the number. I have no experience with 6.

                I usually hate apps for websites, but old Reddit is too hard to read on my phone so I used third party apps.

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                  I just don’t use heavy ad websites like youtube on mobile. And yeah old reddit is hard to read - but they kind of solved the problem now.

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        It’s seriously disturbing from a mental health perspective. They’re doing exactly the same things Facebook did that made it most damaging

        The app always gives you something, it will add filler (in the form of front-page content) to your feed, changing the reward schedule and (very literally) training you to doom scroll longer with fewer posts you actually care about. It also gives the opportunity to shove something controversial in your face, which drives outrage based engagement

        It also always gives you messages - if you didn’t get actual replies, it gives you sub suggestions or puts random posts in your notifications to try to get you back in the app

        They also been doing A/B testing to try to maximize in-app time

        It’s a literal recipe for addiction

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          They want you to experience reddit the way THEY want you to, not how YOU decide to. Put it like it is: predatory.

          Enabling paging in Apollo to stop myself from doomscrolling was a huge thing for me. Reaching the end of a page was a reminder and I could actively decide if I want to go further down the procrastination route or not. Guess what option is not available neither on web or the official app…

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            This actually just helped me make the connection. Whenever I was consciously trying to close the app because I had something else to do I would always make sure to say “one more” then not scroll even a little past otherwise I’d want to keep scrolling to see what was hidden.

            If I’m in this situation again I’ll make sure to turn paging on. I am not sure mlem (lemmy app) supports this, though.

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              Yeah, that „one more“ simply wasn‘t enough for me during times where it was harder for me to keep focus. Sad that it has to be these kind of measures to get „engagement“. And it is not only social media sites where the scrollbar on the right of your screen never reaches the end…

              I‘m using lemmy by webbrowser, paging seems to be the default there.