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Hide app nudges and ads

Protego lets you hide Reddit’s app nudges, ads, sign-up prompts, recommendations, and AI answers.

You open a thread to read it and find a banner over the top of it, a sign-in popup, a sponsored post where a real one would be, and a column of communities you never asked about. Protego takes all of that off the page. A preset can turn most of them on at once.

Stay in Safari without Reddit app nudges

Reddit pushes its app with banners, Open App buttons, and a wall that freezes the page. Turn on Reddit app nudges to hide them all and scroll again. Safari adds its own Smart App Banner while the Reddit app is installed. No extension can hide it, so uninstall the app to remove it too.

A Reddit thread with Reddit’s orange Open App button in the header. The same thread with no Open App button.

Browse feeds without promoted posts and ads

Turn on Promoted posts & ads to hide sponsored posts, ads on comment pages and in community sidebars, and the Advertise button.

A Reddit feed with a promoted post below the first post. The same feed with a regular post where the promoted post was.

Keep Reddit’s games out of view

Turn on Games on Reddit to hide Reddit’s games section from the left sidebar.

Browse logged out without login and signup nudges

Logged out, new Reddit shows a sign-in popup, Log In and Sign Up buttons, and a signup card in the left rail. Turn on Login & signup nudges to hide all of it. You can still sign in from the top-right menu.

Reddit on iPad while logged out, with Sign Up and Log In buttons in the header. The same page with no Sign Up or Log In buttons.

Read a post without recommendations

Reddit surrounds what you read with suggestions. Turn on Recommendations to hide suggested communities in the sidebar and feed, and Related Posts and People Also Ask on a post’s page.

Search without Reddit Answers

Turn on Reddit Answers to hide Reddit’s AI answer block above search results. Search itself keeps working. Words Reddit turns into links inside comments become plain text again, and links people write stay. New Reddit only.

Scroll feeds without Join buttons

Turn on Join buttons to hide the Join button on posts from communities you have not joined. New Reddit only.

How to turn these on

  1. Open Protego and go to the Transform tab.
  2. Tap Nags & Promotions.
  3. Most are already on. Switch the rest on to taste; each is independent.

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