Not sure why, but you accidentally linked directly to the comments, OP. Deleting the URL parameters will fix that.

The actual reason they’re doing this is advertisement. It’s easier to harvest your data and smear advertisement on your snout if you install their junk. That’s it.

The spokesperson in question is lying through their teeth; this shit is too widespread to be just a “small subset”, and odds are they know that broken browser front-end for a single site (aka “app”) is trash, even in comparison with the mobile site.

But even if we play along their lie (we should not), what they’re saying is still belittling: they’re effectively saying “don’t respect user choices; those things are not to be heard, but to be herded.”

Glad I started looking for alternatives more than half a decade ago.

Reddits is bots only , this started with the exodus in 2023