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Comment by boppo1 | Hacker News Reader

Reddit is a shady company. Doing everything they can on the browser experience including interrupting me while I'm typing to try to shunt me over to the app is shady. I don't want the app. I have clicked 'continue in browser' at least 200 times. My preference ought to be clear and recorded by now.

I'd stop visiting altogether if I didn't have a general problem with compulsive browsing.

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Reddit pushing their app so hard annoys the hell out of me too, but what are they doing that qualifies as "shady"?

Apps give them more access and more information than browsers do.

Sounds like a job for uBlock Origin. Just block the element.

Why use reddit's official app? There are several decent opensource apps. (BTW, you can use libredd.it to just read-only reddit)

Thanks I may look into libredd.it. I intentionally removed the 3rd party apps because they were too good and enabled me to doom scroll too efficiently. I used the website in part because it's a painful experience which will keep me from staying on there too long. A read-only version may help that even more because then I'd have to switch to the full website if I wanted to rage post about how someone is wrong on the internet.

Sure, shady companies exist. And you shouldn’t trust shady companies to self report. But… you already know that, it’s in the name! “Shady”. So I think the idea that you should never trust self reporting is indeed an over reaction.

However, having been at (what I deemed) non-shady companies, there’s still the very human desire to downplay as much as is reasonable. Shady companies overstep reasonability on purpose.

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