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Some Redditors say they're walking away after Apollo app shuts down (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Apollo founder Christian Selig said he's "heartbroken" about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit's API pricing changes.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apollo had a huge loyal customer base.

Wefwef provides an almost perfectly cloned UI and is a mere WebApp.

For this reason a lot of users are so impressed with it that they are evangelising it.

The big problem with it that it requires users to submit their login credentials, which is a bit of a security issue.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately all apps are suffering that issue because Lemmy doesn't support OAuth2. It's one of the many things on the dev backlog, but hopefully it won't be too long.

[–] heylilsharty 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you say more about the security issues?Asking for a technology dummy friend.

[–] myusernameisokay 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You need to supply the app with your username and password. The app could theoretically steal your credentials when you enter them in order to login. It’s a good reason to not reuse passwords.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also enable 2fa on your Lemmy account

[–] heylilsharty 1 points 1 year ago

Oof, I didn’t give this thought when I signed in. I luckily didn’t reuse my password here but that’s a great reminder, and good to know my exposure…