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"Reddit anywhere with our app for iPhone & Android"

Replies are filled with people from countries where they can't get it.

Wow, "anywhere" makes it actively worse.

I remember Google doing the same thing when they launched their "Chromebooks are for everyone" ad campaign - you could only purchase one in the UK or the US.

It's like companies are actively trying to annoy the region's they geo-block.

No, it's like what's actually true - that they don't think about those places and therefore do things like write slogans with the mindset that such people don't exist.

Even more likely: whoever wrote that copy isn't the same person as whoever decided on the geo-locking policy.

Google still loves doing this with Chromebooks. They have human-translated marketing websites for the Pixel in Norway and their buy button is just greyed out.

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