This is the answer. From the devs point of view it’s getting the most value out of the product they have spent years making.
For Reddit it’s a good PR move.
This is the answer. From the devs point of view it’s getting the most value out of the product they have spent years making.
For Reddit it’s a good PR move.
I don’t think they will be paying anything until they implement subscriptions. They are exempt for now in exchange for removing advertising from their apps.
Once they implement subscriptions then they get income to cover the cost of the api.
This seems quite clever by Reddit. It looks like there’s some deal that if they remove ads from their apps they get free api usage for a few months. Seems suspicous that both apps doing this have removed ads.
This will soften the blow a little for Reddit as now at least 1 decent sized 3rd party app on each platform (Android/IOS) will continue to work for a while.
A clever PR move that changes nothing.
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