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Comment by pettycashstash2 | Hacker News Reader

  Ifttt is trying to monetize.  Can’t blame them.  Thanks for this alternative.  Also discovered reddit bans on accounts who used ifttt. Wandering if anyone else has same experience

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IFTTT already was monetizing. They previously did so by charging fees to IoT manufacturers which wished to allow their customers to connect their devices to IFTTT. They have raised those fees recently which led to some device manufacturers dropping IFTTT or charging their customers fees to use IFTTT with their devices. This along with IFTTT dropping some actions which resulted them incurring costs, sending SMS messages for example, has significantly reduced the usefulness of IFTTT for many. It will be interesting to see if the decision to monetize through consumers along with manufacturers will work out or alienate enough consumers that even more manufacturers decide that connecting to IFTTT is not worth the expense.

It always seems like constant searches by ifttt might violate tos, so most services I do searches like that on (or use ifttt to search on) I have separate accounts for automation.

I thought IFTTT integration was authorized by reddit. Also, can you please provide a regarding the bans?

https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/j32vo3/is_reddit_doin...

A few users who claim to have used IFTTT even for read-only operations are saying they've had their reddit accounts banned.

This thread as well, with a response from a reddit staff member: https://old.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/j343d2/ifttt_is_being...

My account was just banned. I don't really post or comment, and mainly use ifttt for updates on sales subreddits. No explanation or anything, just just banned it and denied the appeal.

It was just reinstated. I have no idea what's going on

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