Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.

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    1 year ago

    It’s simple, really.

    • if you have Reddit app installed, uninstall it first
    • download revanced manager and install the apk. https://revanced.app/
    • find Reddit app’s apk in apkmirror.com and download it
    • open revanced manager and select Patcher -> “select an application” -> storage and select the downloaded Reddit apk.
    • make sure “disable ads” is in the list of selected patches
    • run the patcher, wait until it completed
    • don’t install the resulting apk right away yet. Instead, open the “…” menu on the top right of the screen and backup the patched apk
    • close the revanced manager app and open your file manager. Locate the patched apk you just backed up in the download folder, then install it.

    Note that I haven’t actually tested this with actual Reddit app.

    Edit: oops, replied to a wrong thread

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      1 year ago

      Instructions unclear: iPhone now running Windows Subsystem for Android. Plz help.

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      That fixes the ads but still the official reddit app is a huge backstep from the now cutoff apps that made browsing reddit a pleasure. It’s just a rippoff off all the terible algorihtm based Facebook, Twitter and Instagram apps that constantly show me posts that i’ve neither subscribed to nor I am interested to see. It’s a shame.

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        1 year ago

        There is an option in revanced manager to patch reddit sync to use your own oauth client id. I just tried it out and the patched reddit sync just crashed when it start loading the frontpage. oh well.

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          Works perfectly fine for me. Did you use the right APK that’s linked in the Google Docs with the instructions?

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            1 year ago

            I actually tried with latest version of Sync Dev already installed in my phone. What version are you using? Also, which google docs? I only follow the instruction in revanced manager that said to put the client id string in /data/storage/emulated/0/reddit_client_id_revanced.txt