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Yeah, the post is really damning. It’s a very well written post with supporting evidence.
Holy shit Reddit. What a fucking disaster.
We’re calling for a vote of no confidence!
Does Reddit have a board? I thought it was a private company.
All this is happening because Reddit upcoming stock IPO
Apollo has no value to them because it doesn't show ads. They're doing this shit to kill off 3rd party apps because they want everyone on their own app in the first place. If they wanted to buy Apollo, they could've done so outright without forcing this new paid API policy on everyone.
It isn't just ads.
Ads may actually not even be the primary thing.
The hot thing right now in social media appears to be engagement metrics. They're tracking the ever living fuck out of everything you do when you go on them. Everything from long you stop on a post to how many times you watched a given video. Hell over half the content at this point on these sites is bot generated.
They can (and do) package and sell that data off to whoever wants to buy it. They don't have to buy ad space, they can also buy a voyeuristic dataset of your activity online via that company's app.
That's why they want you on their app.
We are the product.
It's incredibly fucked up. Like, the closest thing I can compare it to is being treated like cattle and it makes me feel gross.
My first thing whenever I sign up for somethjng or install something is to do my best to diligent root out and cripple whatever data collection I can. So many of these apps have the options to do this and bank on the users not knowing that their data is even being collected.
They did that with Alien Blue. Bought it out and then basically threw it in the trash.
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I feel like I just stumbled upon an archeological find of some kind.
I'm legitimately surprised they didn't expect that call to be recorded and tried to be on their best, most diplomatic behavior.
It's not a fucking trial with rules regarding the admissibility of evidence. People can and will record conversations and kill your reputation because you're a jackass for these things.
I love that their attempt to claw back some of that potential IPO money is backfiring so majestically.