Seen on reddit: Ran out of advertisers. Why? Yes.

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Wait… Reddit has ads?
- Hats off, that's both an argument for the use of third party apps and for eliminating third party apps at the same time...
  
  Reddit gold ran the platform. Going for profit killed the API.
  
  As all adblocking solutions, Yay from the user, Nay from the corporate.
  
  We are just saving them money, imagine the amount of API calls for serving Ads to everyone /s
  
  Buy an ad for Lemmy. Edit: I seem to have clicked the wrong reply location. I don't feel like deleting it though.
- As an ex-RiF user, and also desktop+uBlock, apparently yes.
  
  I use libredirect in Firefox and Google Web cache for reddit if there's only an answer I can find there
- unfortunately. and they are just s bad as you think
- Ya. That is a large part (not the only reason) of why Huffman gambled and lost on killing 3rd party apps. People using Apollo, or any other app that wasn't the trash official app, weren't getting ads at all or were giving their ad dollars to a third party. By killing third party apps, that forces anyone who actually wants to use Reddit to use the official suck ass app or the garbage desktop site which also had alt options that used the API. When users are funneled into only using official Reddit products, that means they're only consuming ads that Reddit makes a profit from.
  I used Bacon Reader for almost ten years. It didn't have ads for half a decade and when ads did come, it was a non intrusive banner ad at the bottom. The Reddit app is riddled with obstructive ads. So is the website unless using an ad blocker. Reddit when used the way the admins want, is just one ass blast of shitty ads.
  
  Just opened the official reddit app. Saw one post. And, no joke the second post was "promoted"
  
  🥓 for the win. 😢 tears shed. 🥓 was the best. I think my app store purchase was about 2014. I was on bacon for about 9 years I think.

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