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Comment by ozmbie | Hacker News Reader

I deleted an unofficial Reddit app from my phone, since I found I was wasting too much time on it. I figured for the occasions I wanted access to reddit (mostly from searching for topics on Google), I’d just use the web version.

But the web UI, combined with Google AMP, made it unusable.

I’ve gone back to the app but with iOS screen time restrictions.

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Apollo for Reddit is a great app made by a solo dev!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575

That is until they become even more greedy and ban third party apps. Probably by the end of next year. The reasons will be 'privacy of users' and 'letting users access reddit via a unified interface'. Or some bs like that

As an ad-supported service, I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit refuse to serve clients that don’t show ads. On the other hand, I don’t think their API that Apollo is using includes ads. Same deal with third-party Twitter clients. I wonder if their are examples of similar ad-supported services that included ads in the API, and required the developer of the third-party client to implement ad support?

Reddit should make an API feature to allow the 3rd party app, the ability to display the ads. Then, Reddit will do profit sharing of each ad shown. This would give the 3rd party app incentive to maintain the app.

Why would they do that when they could just fully control access with their app and not have to worry about ensuring other clients show ads?

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