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View submission: An Update Regarding Reddit’s API
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.
Comment by CyberBot129 at 19/04/2023 at 14:45 UTC
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Almost like people forget that if Reddit itself dies then their third party apps die with it 🤔