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0 pointspoisonborz3y ago0 comments

Of course it would be doable but Reddit doesn't want this. They rather have complete control over the platform. They can't sell ads or metrics with third party apps.

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bentcorner3y ago

> They can't sell ads or metrics with third party apps.

But why not? It's reddit's choice to not push ads into the API, they could certainly change that. They could also provide a telemetry sdk and mandate that all 3p apps use it.

There's a way to make this all work but given reddit is completely uninterested in maintaining the status quo they must have other directions they want to take the platform.

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