You mean you don't like newsletter subscription pop-ups? Or a virtual assistant chat window on the corner? Or auto-playing videos that follow you when you scroll down? Or a choice between "Accept all cookies" and "Learn more?"
And that is just the visible part, actual clickable area is 1px by 1px so even when you correctly click on the "x", you don't actually close it.
This might also be a dark pattern to exploit attention spans compromised by chronic content consumption.
A user sees new content at the top of the page, forgets the content they wanted to see, sticks around to look at novel material.
THEN the user either goes back and gets distracted again, or at the very least, goes back to their intended page.
Also to note, Reddit disabled i.reddit.com (the old mobile site that was snappy) within the last month.
I wouldn’t be surprised if old.reddit.com was next on the chopping block.
The cookie or whatever seems to expire every week or so, then I'm unceremoniously dumped back into the mess that is their "modern" design.
Despite that, the layout of old Reddit is much more information dense. Just use the phone in landscape and it's perfectly fine.
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And, oh, you don't want advertising cookies? Here's a list of a dozen categories you have to manually deselect one-at-a-time. To help with this there's a bright-colored button that says, "accept all" and a drab text link that says, "use my selection."
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...