The unpaid bots effectively squatting? Sure. The paid for bots, part of the marketing firms that pay Reddit? No.
The API change is simply Reddit shaking off the louse that are the freeloaders. That's most of the site and the real content that draws so many people. I think it's a piss poor way to increase monetization, but wtf do I care? I can't wait until Reddit no longer exists.
We all know that free discussion on the net drawing to an end. For most of us it drew to an end around 2014.
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.
Wonder if this will help the bot problem.
The unpaid bots effectively squatting? Sure. The paid for bots, part of the marketing firms that pay Reddit? No.
The API change is simply Reddit shaking off the louse that are the freeloaders. That's most of the site and the real content that draws so many people. I think it's a piss poor way to increase monetization, but wtf do I care? I can't wait until Reddit no longer exists.
We all know that free discussion on the net drawing to an end. For most of us it drew to an end around 2014.
So how does Reddit actually earn revenue? Ads? Paid AMAs? Paid native marketing?
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.