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It's funny how Reddit kept saying that 3rd party apps were making huge bank while also refusing to show ads.... but Sync always did show ads or required a premium purchase. I'd say Sync was one of the most prepared to pay for a (reasonably) priced reddit API if spez hadn't blundered it so bad, both could have made bank.
Anyway, for this. I don't like tracking but with ads comes tracking, and the developer deserves something for all the work they did. However, I'm hoping once the 1-time purchase comes out that it'll disable tracking since ads are no longer a thing
The ads in 3rd party apps weren't Reddit's ads, they were LDawson's ad network/services. Reddit didn't get money from that.
The premium cost was drastically lower than what Reddit ended up demanding too, so it's not really equivalent.
Right that was my point though, that he was already set up to support a (modest) api charge because he was already doing ads, exactly what Reddit wanted the app devs to do, but they asked for so much that it just was unusable. People will pay 20/year to use an app, they aren't going to pay 20/month to use an app.
No, reddit wanted the app devs to fuck off entirely.