Hopefully you don’t have any rogue mods. Apprently r/adviceanimals got the head mod replced by someone that seems to be more inline with the admins-reddit. (u/legweed -> u/CedarWolf)

I think it just depends on how it is served. If it is something non-organic, like shoved in between every other post it would have a negative effect.

Superbowl ads work because people are willing to watch it. It’s part of the game and made to entertain. But when’s the last time you actually bought something advertised on the Superbowl ads?

I don’t think there are a lot of people that enjoys an ad on a YouTube video one minute and fifteen seconds into the video you are trying to watch.

Instead of working with the 3PA devs to come up with something that is a win-win for both parties, they’ve chosen self-destruct.

Most of the 3PA devs has already said, they are not against paying for API usage, as long as it’s a reasonable price. The pricing Reddit wants is definitely to kill 3PA.

It almost sounds like an excuse for Reddit to “revert” the site back and restore the site to pre-blackout state…

Maybe related to Reddit backend going down - https://postimg.cc/G8rgLhkf

Is anyone else also been gettin loading errors on Apollo since yesterday? I’ve stayed off since then but seems like they are already messing with API access already.

There seems to be a misconception by a lot of corporates that shoving ads down users throats will make the users want what is advertised.

Personally, I go out of my way to avoid anything that are shown to me intrusively.

I’m hoping that a lot of the subreddits that has gone dark would remain dark indefinitely. Granted, the Reddit admins might try to replace the mods on a lot of the subreddits - but at that point the community may not be the same anymore.

Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable - Steve Huffman, Reddit CEO

Translation - we don’t have control of the 3PA and they are getting in the way of moooore profit, so we want them gone.

That’s the only logical conclusion. Wouldn’t really make sense otherwise.