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Comment by josephcsible | Hacker News Reader

Yes, that's exactly why. And I assume they're pushing the app so hard because it's immune to ad blocking browsers and it can harvest more of your data.

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And because they can deliver push notifications once the app is installed to re-engage users over and over.

This is why I refuse to engage on Reddit.

Reddit is ripe for being in the parting end of a new digg→reddit event, with users leaving to a federated platform (I can only think of Lemmy). However, I don't know if it's even possible in the current state of things and given the amount of inertia it holds now. At least it should rot as the new Facebook for low effort posts.

For now the best way is to used teddit as a front-end (if you don't post) and Dawn (ad-free, non-spamming, FLOSS app for Android if you do).

In many countries telegram is used for news, posts etc. Only America and some western Europe countries are using reddit.

Yeah, I've been hearing that for many years now, but I think reddit has entered into the zeitgeist and is as sticky as Facebook at this point. I have non-tech family members that use reddit. It used to surprise me when IRL people mentioned reddit, but now it's very common.

"Hey, I saw this on reddit"

PiHole/some VPNs can take care of in-app ads. Haven't confirmed this with Reddit though.

Lots of the Ads and Nags from Reddit come from Reddit servers proper, so it's not just blocking a DNS. Need the magic of a tool like UBO that can inspect URL.

Plenty of reddit ads get past the pi-hole when I view with a browser of any kind, I assume those same ads will make it into the app. As a sibling commenter said, if it's coming from reddits domain, a pi-hole won't do much to stop it.

Or just a third-party app. Any ads those serve are part of the app itself, so you can just find one without ads.

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