• JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, I believe that was a change they made not long after shafting 3rd party apps. I had a couple older iOS devices with their own older versions of third party apps, and that change effectively made any post with a Reddit uploaded image unviewable. Incredibly infuriating and I can’t understand the logic behind it either.

    I will say that further to that, a few years ago Imgur made a change that does the same damn thing if it detects you’re on mobile. Unless you tick “Show Desktop Site” in your browser, it’s impossible to actually standalone view a direct image.

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      8 months ago

      Presumably to disable that hot linking from other websites/apps. Especially if they use scrapers.

      But yeah, bad ux.