Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subred…
Ads already exist in Reddit’s system as a different subtype of the same entity that a post or a comment is. They could just… Present adds in the API call returns. And they could have someone doing regular checks to ensure that the app developers aren’t filtering out ads. This is so fucking stupid lol
My best guess is they want to fight against adblockers next and can’t have people easily switch to a 3PA and avoid ads this way.
Ads already exist in Reddit’s system as a different subtype of the same entity that a post or a comment is. They could just… Present adds in the API call returns. And they could have someone doing regular checks to ensure that the app developers aren’t filtering out ads. This is so fucking stupid lol
That wouldn’t give Reddit access to your phone’s APIs.
Android permissions required by Reddit 2023.23.0:
tbf, there isn’t anything super nefarious there. I don’t even see location.
I guess the money maker is the Google add id.
Probably. But throwing out 3PAs is easier, well except for the backlash.
I switched to Lemmy to avoid Reddit a̶d̶s̶.