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jakebsky | 2 years ago

Reddit destroyed Apollo so they could inject ads into the Reddit experience.

Bluesky doesn't have the ability to do this. There's no API key to revoke that could stop someone else from running parallel apps/infrastructure/etc. The network is completely open.

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Repulsion9513|2 years ago

Reddit had ads long before they destroyed Apollo. Thanks for providing additional evidence for my point.

jakebsky|2 years ago

Sure, but Apollo made it easy for users that didn't want ads to use Reddit without them. Destroying Apollo removed that ability for most people.

I'm about as anti-ads as it gets but I don't object to other people using apps with ads in them, if that's their choice.