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submitted 2 years ago by L4s to c/technology

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That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.

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[–] meldroc 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Spez could have even required 3pas to carry Reddit ads - a lot of us would have grumbled, but stayed.

But Spez didn’t want that, did he? If I had to guess, I'd say Reddit's official app is even more rigged with tracking than Tik Tok. That's why it lags - it phones home every time you pause in your doom-scrolling, to log what stories you're interested in.

[–] skullrot 12 points 2 years ago

That's the most bizarre thing to me. Without knowing Reddit's financials, it seemed like everyone could have their cake and eat it too. We could get a UX catered to how we choose to interact with Reddit and Reddit could make money hand over fist. We all knew the totally free experience wouldn't last. Reddit very easily could have been like "ok guys, party's over. We need to force ads on 3rd party apps". We'd bitch about it, but it'd ultimately be fine. This scorched earth approach to how they handled it is just so out of left field.

[–] Tgs91 6 points 2 years ago

You're right. I highly recommend Duck Duck Go browser app on your phone. It has a beta feature that blocks all tracking requests from your apps, and you can go look at what apps are submitting the most requests. Someone took a lot at the official reddit app compared to 3rd party and it submits an absolutely absurd amount of tracking requests. Like multiple orders of magnitude more, and higher than any other social media app.

[–] time_lord 3 points 2 years ago

If it's programmed right, there's no amount of data collection that should cause lag. It's just a poorly written app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

They never even updated the API to show ads... Like, you could've worked on that at any time, it's your own API.