Ask HN: Why does Reddit's webapp as well as mobile app consume so much data?

This feels somewhat light. Might take a long time to get used to the UI. Anyway, thanks.

This was the default UI for many years.

You can kind of answer your question by opening up your browser's developer tools and looking at the Network tab which shows you every request made, it's destination, size, duration, etc.

They're a data hungry tech company like any other tech company worth its salt these days. The reason it's free is because the data on its users is so valuable. They've monetized it in any number of ways.

I've been using reddit since the beginning and it's just getting more and more annoying to use. Can anyone suggest an alternative (beside SlashDot)?

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