Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Earlier today, we reported on an incredibly irritating move by the social giant Reddit. Though the company has a perfectly functional mobile website that lets you browse its communities and discussions on your phone’s browser, it’s now intentionally sabotaging it — by displaying a giant popup that prevents any use of the site while imploring visitors to download its app instead. Don’t believe us? Just look at this monstrosity, which prevents you from scrolling or clicking anything: Anyone who doesn’t use the app obviously has their reasons. Maybe they don’t want to be tracked further than necessary or install yet another pointless app, or object to the company’s dealmaking with the AI industry, or they just want a general overview of what the average user is seeing instead of a personalized feed. Maybe they just object to the entire idea of an app that does nothing except recreate the functionality of an existing website. For all those reasons …