cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1032247
Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.
Don’t forget to rate it 1 star
And mention that Spez being a trash heap, STD infused, shit covered dildo is also a major contributing factor.
While all that is true, you actually shouldn’t do that in your review, as that will often get it flagged/removed. (They’ll think it’s not a “real” review and instead part of a review bombing effort.)
Brooo like I downloaded it to use for porn (all my saves and my carefully tailored subscription list of hentai and fetish porn) and you can’t even sort by top? Like what the fuck?
Ohhhhh, OK I get it now.
I always used (and preferred) the official app and wondered why I was the only one haha.
But, I had Reddit Premium until recently, and now I guess AdGuard must be picking up the slack. 😅
I found that even with AdGuard DNS enabled, I still saw promoted posts (ads) using the Reddit app, so I deleted it.
Before I deleted my account, I did give it a try and it’s truly terrible and it’s a shame they expect you to use that when basically every 3rd party app is better in every way. It’s buggy, riddled with ads and doesn’t have proper tablet support while both Sync and Boost did.
I know Revanced will fix some of the issues, but I’m done with Reddit out of principle of them throwing 3rd party devs to the curb when it’s been fine for them to develop apps for years.
More ads than content. Not suprised.
Lmao. I refuse to go back.
I stopped using it on mobile once infinity died
You can use Revanced Manager to remove the ads out of the app. Just sayin’… As a ‘fuck you’ to Reddit, if you insist on still using that site.
I’ve “revancified” Boost and RiF Golden Platinum for this exact reason.
Does anyone have an .APK for RIF Golden Platinum? I’ve heard it’s working and want it back for a specific use case but it’s obviously not on play store anymore.
And does revanced fix not letting you log in?
I tried using Vanced for YT a few months ago, and despite the documentation, I couldn’t get it to work. It’s the only thing keeping me from trying
Vanced is long dead. Try Revanced:
- download Revanced Manager
- inside the app go to Patcher>Select an application
- check which version of YT is currently recommended (18.19.35 as today)
- download that build of YT from APKMirror. make sure you’re downloading non-bundle release (.apk file, not .apkm)
now the process varies whether your phone is rooted or not.
rooted guide:
- install the .apk, this may require manually uninstalling current version of YT you have
- give root access to Revanced in Magisk
- go to Patcher in Revanced, Select application and pick YouTube from the list
- select patches you like; do not select Vanced MicroG Support (you can use Default pack, just disable MicroG manually)
- click Done (n)
- click Patch, this will take around 2 to 10 minutes. your phone will stay awake and I recommend not leaving the Manager
- now click Install as root
- if applicable, go to the Play Store, disable auto-update for YouTube
- also, to make sure you don’t accidently update YT, use a file manager like Material Files create a text file called detach.cfg and put it in /Android folder in main storage (where data, media and obb are)
- inside the file type out youtube’s package name: com.google.android.youtube . you can do this for any app you like to stay non-updated
- using Magisk flash Detach3 zip
- done. YT will work with your current Google account and will not update. you can tweak the settings inside the app.
non-root guide:
- after downloading the app skip installing it and go straight to Patcher in Revanced manager
- Select application but this time click Storage in bottom-right corner
- find the downloaded .apk
- select patches you like; do select Vanced MicroG Support (you can use Default pack)
- click Done (n)
- click Patch, this will take around 2 to 10 minutes. your phone will stay awake and I recommend not leaving the Manager
- now click Install or click the shashlik menu (vertical …) and Export apk to save it and not repeat the process for other devices
- when successfully installed either from Revanced or a file manager after exporting the apk, open the app
- it will prompt you to install MicroG. it’s a little plugin which allows 3rd party apps to act as official YouTube apps. basically minimal Gapps replacement. go ahead and install it
- log into MicroG. use your regular Google credentials or create a temporary app password, especially if you use 2FA (which may break MicroG)
- your new YouTube Revanced is installed alongside regular YouTube, as it has different package name (Vanced MicroG plugin does this by default). therefore there’s no risk Play Store will force to update it and you can use both the official and custom app at the same time
- go to settings inside YouTube to tweak the app
- you can share the newly-created .apk to other devices and straight-up install it with any file manager.
Vanced has been dead for a while. ReVanced is the replacement.
Yo, charge your phone!
some people really like to live dangerously.
It always annoyed me how the ads were formatted to look like posts, always felt like they were trying to trick people into clicking on it (which honestly that probably is the intent). Feel the same way with ads on Twitter. It’s one thing to show ads and another to format them to try and trick users into clicking on them
Honestly. I tried using the app the other day and for some reason its SO laggy. It’s only the official app that does this too, I did not have this problem with Apollo or Sync.
It lags even on a OnePlus 11 with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and 16GB RAM. No other app I have ever used lags like this.
Bro phones have that much RAM now? Holy shit…
The official reddit app was crazy shit when I tried it 2 years ago. Can’t imagine what it would feel like to use it now.
It took me a minute to realize you were not on wefwef
Me too! I was like “wtf, they’re already adding ads in Lemmy” 🤣
I crapped myself when I saw this post. I thought I had promoted stuff and trending feeds and was feeling like it was on it way to Reddit shenanigans, good to know it’s just a cesspit screenshot.
You can download revanced manager and patch out the ads
You gave me a mini heart attack, I was scrolling and thought ads were starting to appear in lemmy 😖
i used it when i had to use the Reddit app for the duckduckgo subreddit
