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why does Reddit want us to use the official app so badly? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Soullioness@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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They don't even want you to use the website I don't think. They've even done experiments where they blocked people from using the mobile website. The more they want me to use their app, the more I want to avoid Reddit all together.

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[–] lemmy_steve@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tracking. Ads. Selling data etc.

[–] darius@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

To quote ljdawson, the dev of Sync for reddit: "Apart from crashes I don't track shit."

He was asked how many API calls Sync's users have on average. He simply couldn't answer. That's why we loved 3rd party apps.