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View submission: An Update Regarding Reddit’s API
there's way more to the ad than just "seeing it". it's the interaction with it that matters and that also needs to be implemented which will make the experience as shit as it is in the main app. considering I don't use it because of ads, I will quickly quit any app that decides to serve them because FUCK ADS
Comment by Multimoon at 19/04/2023 at 04:19 UTC
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I’m in agreement with fuck ads, but it’s a concept that’s here to stay and trying to design around it just makes companies like Reddit clamp down on official only apps harder than they already are. I’m in complete agreement that if 3rd party apps go or are neutered, I’m gone. And I’m a Reddit user of a decade, a mod, and a dev so I do like the platform.
What you’re referring to with interaction is called a hit, and It’s very easy to implement a talkback api to track that hit. That’s how any given ad platform works as well.
It’s better to hope for a compromise that’s at least possible vs hoping for Reddit to just remove ads and have no revenue at all, which is unfair to ask of them.