Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases
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#2Probably they should have found a way to require third party apps to display their ads.
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#3Probably they should have found a way to require third party apps to display their ads.
AFAIK it's generally not a thing because of fraud / lack of metribility.
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#6Probably they should have found a way to require third party apps to display their ads.
Or sell influence? Pick brands or politics and curate what people see by manipulating the rankings.
However this is worse than regular ads.
Honestly, I wish those platforms(all the social media) were transparent and pay for use. When it's free the experience sucks for everyone, can you imagine if we had the tech in the telephone era to inject ads in phone calls or reduce connectivity to those who talks stuff not kosher in the current political environment.
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#7The app is complete garbage, and the dark patterns on their mobile webpage are insidious.
If I have to wait to go to my desktop to see something on reddit, most likely I’ll forget about it and not visit at all. Or I’ll go through the old.reddit on mobile which isn’t great.
But it’s only a matter of time until they remove old.reddit.
Perhaps web scrapers can come to the rescue in some way? Maybe a self-hosted instance of a scraper that pulls the data for each page you’d like to see, kind of like a proxy between your client and reddit? Would be a fun project to try out.
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#8Reddit is past its expiration date anyway and I'm surprised no one has created a challenger site. Perhaps this was due to Reddit's friendliness toward programmatic access but it seems they are taking that away.
This is a good opportunity to create a new community, and essentially take back messaging from the corporations (let's be real about what reddit is) and put it back into the hands of the people.
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#9Probably they should have found a way to require third party apps to display their ads.
The solution is only allowing 3rd party access to Reddit subscribers, to avoid the need to monetize through ads.
If Reddit is asking 12000$ for 50M requests, then a regular Reddit user (344 reqs/day) would be paying around 2,5$/month, which seems more reasonable than putting the burden on the 3rd party developer.
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#10Every social network goes through this. You used to be able to access Facebook via other front-ends as well, same with Twitter.
This will cut down drastically on my reddit usage, and for that I am thankful. I don't have the Facebook or Twitter apps on my phone, and only use them from Firefox in Private mode when I do get the urge to check them.