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Any chance of being able to side load the app and use our own personal API keys? I was under the impression there was no cost to a personal one
Of course, and while I’d rather not use Reddit at all, as long as I’m not giving them a dime I don’t feel as though I’m compromising my morals towards how I feel towards the company
However they still get ad revenue from you wherever you scroll by one of their ads
No ads on Apollo or desktop Reddit with a proper adblocker
I'm not expert on this but my understanding is that personal keys would be rate limited. I'm prepared to be wrong about that.
From what we've heard free keys should cover the average user's usage
But I don't think Apollo is going to be capable of this. Maybe some other app will go open source and make this possible
Thanks for the clarification.
I thought in the big post by the Apollo dev, he linked to the source code in order to demonstrate something.
Source code of the server backend he uses for notifications, not the whole app.
Ah yes, my mistake.
They are but it’s 1000/10 minutes which is a ton for the average user
According to the clowns at Reddit and confirmed my the Apollo dev the average use on Apollo uses 345/day(might have that number wrong I’m pulling from memory)
There are currently API rate limits. The rate limits currently in place by Reddit is 60 requests per minute per user, so 86,400 per day.
The average usage by Apollo users is 345 requests per day.
Limits are a non-issue.
lol.
I might be wrong but the way the API used to work is that both you and the app would have an API key, and they'd be used together to access reddit. After the API changes, only the app's API key will exist, so you'd need to pay for it to use the API
I mean if there were a version that could accept user API keys it would be pretty trivial to register it as a new ‘app’ and plug in your new app / user API keys.
The real problem is, if this were possible, a bunch of people would do it, and then reddit would inevitably clamp down on the free API access as they have the same issue of people using it without paying or looking at ads. Not to mention we’d be coasting on an old version of Apollo that would inevitably fall into disrepair as both phone OS changes and reddit API changes roll through.
then reddit would be truely dead.
Honestly the solve imo is that Reddit should offer a subscription to users so they can use any client they want, without charging the client itself.
The fact they’ve handled this terribly aside, I am partial to the fact we are basically making it impossible to get advertising revenue while costing money to the app. Conceptually, it’s not totally unfair for me to buy a, say, $3 a month subscription to Reddit, which basically covers some of the ad revenue losses and API costs. Link that to gilding value and I’d be ok with it.
This way would not mess with the app - if anything it would allow them to thrive without fear that their business model will be impacted by future price changes.
There’s stuff that Apollo does that would require more than that. Like it has actual push notifications because it regularly checks for new messages, and then pushes the notification.
Or just extract the API keys from the official Reddit app and patch them into Apollo, ReVanced style. Can’t wait for that to begin!
u/iamthatis answered this in another thread and in short, no, it’s not possible.