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Absolutely unreal. This should seal the fate of Reddit.
I did a little research a few days ago, and it seems like reddit has grown their userbase upward of 40% since the site redesign in 2017. I think they are banking on most "average" users not even realizing that third party clients or old.reddit even existing. They are more than willing to sacrifice power users who avoid ads for oblivious users who don't.
I think they ran the numbers and went with "We can still make money after pissing off half of our userbase, and we can expect many of the pissed off members to be so addicted they won't actually walk away."
I think they also see this with every major game boycott. Gamers are notoriously unable to stick to their principles and keep paying for games that undermine their "demands" as gamers. While a vocal minority stick to their guns, most gamers who claim to want to boycott games end up buying and playing them. Hogwarts Legacy is a great example of where the boycott basically did fuck-all and many who claimed to boycott ended up buying the game anyway.
"Gamers" and Gamers are two different things. Only "Gamers" ever said they wanted to boycott games, but much like Reddit's userbase, "Gamers" are only 30% of all Gamers.