I’ve seen this popup on the mobile website with Firefox a few times, enabling a user agent switcher extention and setting my user agent to be that of a desktop operating system makes the popup go away.
They intentionally target Firefox, because of plugins and real adblocker.
Tbh I don’t even care. I would use reddit only from desktop before I ever see ads. It’s their loss my valuable content won’t be on their platform.
There are numerous user agent switcher extentions you can use across both the chrome web store and the firefox web store. However since Firefox supports extentions on mobile, unlike chrome, you could say that it is a Firefox extention for this use case.
Explanation of what a user agent is, just in case:
A user agent is a small piece of text your browser sends to websites that includes information about the operating environment of the user, stuff like browser version and the operating system.
Normally, if I went to Reddit on Android, Reddit could see from my user agent that I was on android device, so Reddit could prompt me to download the app and block my acsess to the reddit content from the website with the popup mentioned in the post.
Basically, changing your user agent is like making your browser lie to websites by saying “I am Chrome running on Windows” rather than “I am Firefox running on Android”, causing Reddit to falsely believe that I am not using a smartphone, therefore it would be dumb to tell me to use the smartphone app instead of the website, therefore the popup doesnt appear and I can use the Reddit website on my phone freely.
What do you mean ?
I’ve seen this popup on the mobile website with Firefox a few times, enabling a user agent switcher extention and setting my user agent to be that of a desktop operating system makes the popup go away.
They intentionally target Firefox, because of plugins and real adblocker. Tbh I don’t even care. I would use reddit only from desktop before I ever see ads. It’s their loss my valuable content won’t be on their platform.
Is this a Firefox extension?
There are numerous user agent switcher extentions you can use across both the chrome web store and the firefox web store. However since Firefox supports extentions on mobile, unlike chrome, you could say that it is a Firefox extention for this use case.
Explanation of what a user agent is, just in case:
A user agent is a small piece of text your browser sends to websites that includes information about the operating environment of the user, stuff like browser version and the operating system.
Normally, if I went to Reddit on Android, Reddit could see from my user agent that I was on android device, so Reddit could prompt me to download the app and block my acsess to the reddit content from the website with the popup mentioned in the post.
Basically, changing your user agent is like making your browser lie to websites by saying “I am Chrome running on Windows” rather than “I am Firefox running on Android”, causing Reddit to falsely believe that I am not using a smartphone, therefore it would be dumb to tell me to use the smartphone app instead of the website, therefore the popup doesnt appear and I can use the Reddit website on my phone freely.