They don’t even want you to use the website I don’t think. They’ve even done experiments where they blocked people from using the mobile website. The more they want me to use their app, the more I want to avoid Reddit all together.

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    AI datasets can be built by scrubbing web content and doesn’t require API access.

    This is about making sure Reddit controls the user experience and users can’t, say, block their ads or hide Reddit awards. It’s also a cold (and short-sighted) calculation: some people are making money from our product without sharing our costs, better kill them.

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      They can, but that would be a) more work than just paying to use the API b) easy to spot and hamper if done at scale c) really difficult to explain to investors.

      Again, if Reddit wants to kill third party apps, it just needs to turn off comments and votes through the API.