How to Get Rid of Reddit’s Persistent Mobile Popup
You might think, given its recent $ 6 billion valuation , Reddit would be confident to get rid of the pop-ups that the site serves whenever you try to visit anything on its domain in your mobile browser (when you’re not signed in). , I implore you to use the app instead. Alas.
While I usually use a third party Reddit viewer app (the awesome Apollo for iOS), I hit the Reddit link many times when using my mobile browser and I don’t want to deal with pulling up my app. I just want to view this in Chrome – end of story.
Luckily, you can break free of this annoying barrier between you and the content. Whether you’re on Android or iOS, just fire up Chrome, open Reddit, and tap the three-line menu in the top-right corner of the site. Please note that this is not the three-dot menu in Chrome, which is also in the upper right corner. See the difference:
You need to click on the icon to the right of the Use App button, not the icon to the right of the tab counter. When the Reddit menu loads, click on Settings and then look for the Ask to open in app option. Uncheck the box and in most cases Reddit will no longer bother you talking about its app:
I say “most” because the popup will still appear if you go to Reddit using the AMP link on Google. AMP is short for Accelerated Mobile Page . You will know what this is happening if you see “AMP” in front of the reddit domain in your browser window. There is no great way to disable these pages in Chrome, but you can use an alternative browser with the ability to remove AMP links from search results. You can also try using AdGuard and change the user agent string to navigate AMP pages.
I found that clicking on links to the main Reddit threads tends to load them as AMP pages, whereas clicking on highlighted comments / replies does not, so there is that option as well. Likewise, if you don’t see the dropdown button to start looking for Reddit settings, chances are you are on an AMP page. Keep clicking around and you will eventually be taken to the regular mobile Reddit experience. You will then be able to disable this popup on iOS or Android.
( Android police tip for reminding me of this.)