Comment by SV_BubbleTime
2 hours ago
New Reddit for my phone has decided to put a bottom popup forcing me to the app.
The second old goes away I’ll never go that site again except for search results.
I ADORE that a publicly traded tech giant is so fucking stupid.
UBlock Origin can clear those on FF mobile with one of the Annoyances lists
If you're on iOS, you're out of luck. FF extensions aren't supported.
You can hide distracting items in safari to remove the popup.
Requesting the desktop version of the site has solved that for me. For now.
Their users and those users data are the product; you are insignificant in the eyes of their shareholders.
You don’t seem to understand. It isn’t about me. Or even people like me. Slowly they kill themselves. It might not even be obvious to people, but they’ll slowly turn away at this or the next thing or the next one after that.
I’ll be here long after Reddit at this rate.
MySpace seemed like the shit until you put Facebook next to it. Does anyone think Reddit is the shit in 2026? And that is without anything put next to it.
The word "the" is doing a lot of work in your last paragraph. I initially missed seeing the word "the", and that changed the meaning entirely for me. Observe:
> MySpace seemed like shit until you put Facebook next to it.
This sentence would be claiming that MySpace was a lousy experience, but Facebook was even worse. Which would make it hard to explain why people jumped ship.
> MySpace seemed like the shit until you put Facebook next to it.
What you actually wrote claimed that MySpace seemed great, but then Facebook was even better. Which makes it easy to explain why people jumped ship.
I don't have an actual point to make about MySpace or Facebook. (I never used MySpace, and only used Facebook once, two decades ago, because the social group I was in at the time was using Facebook as their only means of announcing events — once I moved to a different town I dropped Facebook and closed my account). I just wanted to comment about the grammatical structure of that sentence, because I thought it was fascinating. The word "the" is so often mere filler, which could be omitted and the sentence would still be perfectly understandable. (Hence why many languages, such as Russian, don't have the word "the" at all). But here's a counterexample to that general rule, a sentence where omitting one since instance of the word "the" inverted the meaning.
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