Their Chinese masters certainly help subsidize it, but I suspect the ads carry the bulk of the responsibility for whatever they bring in. With a very simple ad-blocking setup you won't see any ads at all. They probably spend more time and money figuring out ways to track people evading account bans than they make in ad revenue! I suspect their masters were only willing to let reddit drain money as long as it had some certain level of usefulness pushing the fascist neo-marxist and sexually perverted messaging for the mentally diseased trans and gay crowd.
Their Chinese masters certainly help subsidize it, but I suspect the ads carry the bulk of the responsibility for whatever they bring in. With a very simple ad-blocking setup you won't see any ads at all. They probably spend more time and money figuring out ways to track people evading account bans than they make in ad revenue! I suspect their masters were only willing to let reddit drain money as long as it had some certain level of usefulness pushing the fascist neo-marxist and sexually perverted messaging for the mentally diseased trans and gay crowd.