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The entirety of redit.com seems to be just a broken honeypot to get you to use the app instead. I just can’t fathom how a company can be that broken.

It's their intention to have the website be a funnel so that they can get more mobile users.

I sometimes use https://old.reddit.com, though it doesn't look that great on mobile, maybe there are some other alternatives.

I still don't understand why mobile users are so much more valuable to them, is it just the inability to block ads?

Your phone has sensors and superior data they can track/sell

I know reddit will connect accounts together based on device ID, i wonder if their data becomes more valuable if you can tie multiple independent accounts together in to one profile?

Its a site where users will often have multiple login for different subjects of discussion.

is it just the inability to block ads?

Of course it is.

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