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View submission: An Update Regarding Reddit’s API
According the the maintainer the the Apollo app, usage at that scale would have to be paid and the app would have to move to a subscription model.
I can't see this as anything other than a direct attack on third party apps and potentially browser extensions.
This will be a quick way to turn reddit into another mindless clone of facebook, which appears to be the goal. So bravo on the corporate speak thus far and getting the press confused enough that people that don't dig into details will miss it.
Comment by smallfrys at 25/05/2023 at 21:43 UTC
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On the plus side, this could still be an option for those that truly want to pay to avoid access via the 1st party app. I might still use FB if I could pay them directly so they couldn't monetize my data. And I say this as someone who has all the Apollo IAPs.