I’m a stubborn person. Sometimes to a fault. It’s a blessing and a curse.

The incessant “install our app” messages on Reddit are a major turn off and one of the reasons I use Reddit so little. There’s no reason Reddit can’t work just fine in a browser. The only reason to encourage the app so much is if it benefits Reddit. At that point our relationship becomes adversarial and there’s no reason to continue.

Nothing here is surprising. The app was clearly user hostile and doing something nasty, now we just know what it was doing.