The incredible thing is that this is an "experiment", not a policy. As an experiment they're ready to harass and alien X percentage of their users? Amazing.

Also, the answer theoretically should be right below the question 'cause it's most relevant but I can see how no one could bring themselves to upvote this.

People who experiment on their friends like this quickly run out of friends.

I only access Reddit via old.Reddit

They seem to have broken the back button now on iOS/safari. I’m sure it wasn’t like that a few weeks ago.

Yes, despite assuming that old.reddit.com was static, it doesn't seem to be. Periodically they tweak something about it and break it a little more. Trying to convince people to stop using it I guess.