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Reddit CEO: We're Sticking With API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark (uk.pcmag.com)

submitted 1 year ago by 0485919158191@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The reason Reddit doesn't want to do that is they can harvest and sell so much more user profile data if they funnel everything through themselves. That is what they are selling to investors.

[–] taj@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yup. I get it too. 'We'll lock down and get rid of the 3rd party apps, just give us a couple of months.'