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Reddit: Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year to keep running as-is. (mastodon.social)

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup... reddit only gains from people being forced into using their own app. Apollo and other 3rd party clients don't track data like "time spent looking at X ad".

More metrics and such to sell to advertisers.

[–] _number8_@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's disgusting how no one wants to actually be a company that provides things anymore, but simply a company that does deals with advertisers

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Reddits innovative spirit really did die with aaron swartz, who couldn't stand working there.