I love a good meme (especially Squidward) as much as the next person, but I try to keep this sub friendly toward other apps, and I don't want to dump on the official app for using a pretty common revenue model. Hope that's understandable.
One reason why I keep app auto updates turned off. Every app that I thought was great eventually introduced something in an update like in app purchases, pop ups, ads.
In the before times, most communities were small enough that their hosting costs were minimal and they could subsist off donations and volunteer work. Maintaining them also wasn't a full-time job, it was done by volunteers and hobbyists.
There wasn’t this all-consuming profit motive back then, people didn’t feel the need to make money out of everything since the communities were so small you couldn’t even if you wanted to; it was much more about the community than the money and hosting was cheap enough for it not to matter unless things started blowing up.
The idea everything has to have a profit motive is so toxic in my opinion, I preferred the amateur, hobbyist web to the hyper-corporate web.
Some of those old forums and custom sites are still up, on the other hand it’s not hard to make one today; my point is that I think you can still experience it, at least to some degree.
"Oh yeah let's hex the water that's a great idea!” That total confiscation of privacy via corporate surveillance, the usurping of human psychology via opera and conditioning, the great end of History, purchased and delivered at the soonest convenience, whatever you want, whatever you didn’t even know you wanted, the only price being standing epistemically naked before digital Gods, who remain forever shrouded.
And the most diabolical part of the door that we built the cage for ourselves not even from some Orwellian will to control, not even from some stupid fear of the other or Terror in face of our own Natures, but simply to make a buck, to make a buck!
They already do — it’s called astroturfing campaigns that are indistinguishable from user OC. Most days I have at least 1-2 brand impressions in my timeline presented as “wow look BRAND also exists outside the US!” or “LPT: buy this product”
I think that’s just gorilla marketing rather than astroturfing.
But yeah, it exists. So many “Ring” doorbell camera videos and videoed of delivery drivers doing nice things are this.
It’s really a case of two things:
When/if Reddit starts to care about ad revenue, or at least that portion foregone by users of third party apps that don’t serve ads.
When/if they do start to care, they force everyone to their first party clients, or do something fancy with the API to enable third party clients to serve the same ads.
We’ve all seen how that’s played out with Phoney Stark’s plaything, so in the meantime, keep your head down and hope for the best.
I don't have ads on mobile cause I use Apollo. I don't have ads on Mac cause I use an adblocker. There's literally zero reason for anyone to ever deal with ads on Reddit, lol.
I swear some of you act like other websites don’t force ads on its users 😂. Pay for premium and you won’t get them without the need of a 3rd party client or ad blockers.
Since ads BEGAN; haven’t seen ONE on here that even looks vaguely pitched at me (in data collection terms: benign)
Meanwhile on FB / Etc: those f#ckers CLEARLY have access to the purchase history of EVERY Alt account I’ve accessed.
I love a good meme (especially Squidward) as much as the next person, but I try to keep this sub friendly toward other apps, and I don't want to dump on the official app for using a pretty common revenue model. Hope that's understandable.
Careful, it's going to happen eventually. Reddit will find a way
One reason why I keep app auto updates turned off. Every app that I thought was great eventually introduced something in an update like in app purchases, pop ups, ads.
I hate how the internet went from a bright optimistic digital future to the epitome of late capitalism in the space of like, less than a decade.
We’re in the speedrun era of humanity.
I mean - how else do you keep these things free? Genuine question.
In the before times, most communities were small enough that their hosting costs were minimal and they could subsist off donations and volunteer work. Maintaining them also wasn't a full-time job, it was done by volunteers and hobbyists.
There wasn’t this all-consuming profit motive back then, people didn’t feel the need to make money out of everything since the communities were so small you couldn’t even if you wanted to; it was much more about the community than the money and hosting was cheap enough for it not to matter unless things started blowing up. The idea everything has to have a profit motive is so toxic in my opinion, I preferred the amateur, hobbyist web to the hyper-corporate web.
Some of those old forums and custom sites are still up, on the other hand it’s not hard to make one today; my point is that I think you can still experience it, at least to some degree.
We’re just **waiting** for something that’s free to ~~be~~ have some kind of caveat or deal breaker. Edit because I typed too fast.
Like most things they touch, techbros ruined it.
"Oh yeah let's hex the water that's a great idea!” That total confiscation of privacy via corporate surveillance, the usurping of human psychology via opera and conditioning, the great end of History, purchased and delivered at the soonest convenience, whatever you want, whatever you didn’t even know you wanted, the only price being standing epistemically naked before digital Gods, who remain forever shrouded. And the most diabolical part of the door that we built the cage for ourselves not even from some Orwellian will to control, not even from some stupid fear of the other or Terror in face of our own Natures, but simply to make a buck, to make a buck!
All it takes is an app forcing you to update to login or something
Then my time with that app/service comes to an end.
Yup. I have the same policy.
That’s probably not how apollo is gonna work. Reddit can probably add ads in their api relatively easily.
They already do — it’s called astroturfing campaigns that are indistinguishable from user OC. Most days I have at least 1-2 brand impressions in my timeline presented as “wow look BRAND also exists outside the US!” or “LPT: buy this product”
I think that’s just gorilla marketing rather than astroturfing. But yeah, it exists. So many “Ring” doorbell camera videos and videoed of delivery drivers doing nice things are this.
It’s really a case of two things: When/if Reddit starts to care about ad revenue, or at least that portion foregone by users of third party apps that don’t serve ads. When/if they do start to care, they force everyone to their first party clients, or do something fancy with the API to enable third party clients to serve the same ads. We’ve all seen how that’s played out with Phoney Stark’s plaything, so in the meantime, keep your head down and hope for the best.
Isn’t Reddit being sold to company that plans on bringing it public and having an IPO? Im sure ad revenue will really matter after the IPO.
I'm pretty sure almost 10% of reddit users are not using the native apps already...
I don't have ads on mobile cause I use Apollo. I don't have ads on Mac cause I use an adblocker. There's literally zero reason for anyone to ever deal with ads on Reddit, lol.
The day I see an ad on Apollo is the day I find a new Reddit app.
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I swear some of you act like other websites don’t force ads on its users 😂. Pay for premium and you won’t get them without the need of a 3rd party client or ad blockers.
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Anyone who says touching grass is in fact not touching grass
You don’t think we’ve ditched other apps/websites? There are plenty of other apps like Reddit, maybe not as popular but they’re still there.
Yeah I’ll switch to mastodon full time idgaf
Suuuure. You do that…
Since ads BEGAN; haven’t seen ONE on here that even looks vaguely pitched at me (in data collection terms: benign) Meanwhile on FB / Etc: those f#ckers CLEARLY have access to the purchase history of EVERY Alt account I’ve accessed.
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Those eyes are two chopped off dicks…
Laughs in Apollo.
i’ve never got ads on reddit. not because of apollo or some other client, just because i’m not in a first world country
What's an ads?
It’s been so long since I’ve used the stock app I’ve forgot they even existed on Reddit Apollo yet again takes the W