This is so short sighted by the Reddit C suite. It makes literally no sense for them to kill these apps when every argument they made for killing them was in bad faith.
The problem is that 3rd party apps don’t have the same level of invasive data collection, thus those users aren’t valuable from a monetization perspective which is important when you’re trying to IPO. It doesn’t matter if they lose half of the power users if the other half gets converted to using the official Reddit app
This is so short sighted by the Reddit C suite. It makes literally no sense for them to kill these apps when every argument they made for killing them was in bad faith.
The problem is that 3rd party apps don’t have the same level of invasive data collection, thus those users aren’t valuable from a monetization perspective which is important when you’re trying to IPO. It doesn’t matter if they lose half of the power users if the other half gets converted to using the official Reddit app