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Comment by dmart | Hacker News Reader

Perhaps not relevant to LinkedIn specifically, but in general people install these apps because they eventually get fed up with the purposefully crippled mobile website badgering them about it. Ever tried to use Yelp or Reddit's mobile websites? Impossible.

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>Ever tried to use Yelp or Reddit's mobile websites? Impossible

The other day I tried to view a subreddit in Safari. It was literally impossible, it was claimed to be only available in the app.

If you don't mind seeing the desktop interface, prepend "old" to the domain on any reddit page (i.e. change the domain to old.reddit.com) to bring up the legacy interface. Loads quick and works fine on mobile if you don't mind zooming.

That said, it's ridiculous that this is necessary.

For a super legacy experience, try i.reddit.com

https://i.reddit.com/

If only there was a app for always on desktop mode.

You can just turn the toggle on in Firefox on Android and it stays on in that tab until you turn it off (or close the tab)

I use my mobile browser to read Reddit threads posted on HN. Not terrible but I don't know in which ways the app is better.

I'm a little surprised that iOS content blockers haven't seemed to address nagware.

Content blockers aren't allowed to inject arbitrary JS which is often necessary to fix broken websites, unlike uBlock Origin.

Actually, no, I never have. But if I wanted to wallow in these sewers for some reason, and the mobile sites were unusable, I would use my laptop, or just manage to find some way to survive without them. Installing their apps is out of the question.

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