just so this doesn’t overwhelm our front page too much, i think now’s a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let’s try to keep what’s happening in this thread instead of across 10.

developments to this point:

The Verge is on it as usual, also–here’s their latest coverage (h/t @[email protected]):

other media coverage:

  • QuiteYellow@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If it was truly about Reddit not wanting to lose money from not serving ads on third party apps, they would serve ads via the API.

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      1 year ago

      I’d love to link it, but there’s so much content around this that I’ll never be able to find it.
      I’m sure it was mentioned by some app developers that they were asking for access to the ad API that Reddit uses in order to serve their ads in the 3rd party apps so they don’t have to shutdown.

      Also, asking after the proper GraphQL API access (instead of the older and less featured/efficient REST API) now that it’s becoming paid access… And I’m sure that the answer was “it’s not ready”.