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A lot of them detect it and try to force you. It's malicious as hell, but somehow allowed.

For example reddit won't open a link it deems +18 through the web browser, and redirects you to use the app.



I wonder, by the way, why Reddit's "install app or continue with browser" popup isn't blocked by uBlock Origin. It is clearly an ad, and very malicious indeed.


Ridiculously if you change to old.reddit.com it’s no problem at all.


I saw that on Reddit couple of times. I just close the tab in that case: there's nothing 18+ on Reddit that worth installing their app.


A solution to this is use HyperApp or Userscript to automatically redirect to old.reddit.com. It works like a charm.


Not for mobile Firefox, unfortunately.


Well, that's on Apple.




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