Unfortunately the developer of the Apollo app already got a call, and apps will need to pay. That's then the end of reddit on mobile for me. The official app is unusable and had annoying behaviour in desperate attempts to boost engagement.
> There was a quote in an article about how these changes would not affect Reddit apps, that was meant in reference to “apps on the Reddit platform”, as in embedded into the Reddit service itself, not mobile apps
Paid I can deal with and Reddit are certainly entitled to some rev share for enabling the content - but - if this goes down the old EEE path through to extinguish third party as a way to force their interface and tools or nothing - then nothing is what it will be. Twitter's API history and present is a great example of how bad things could potentially get.
https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...
> There was a quote in an article about how these changes would not affect Reddit apps, that was meant in reference to “apps on the Reddit platform”, as in embedded into the Reddit service itself, not mobile apps
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> tl;dr: Paid API coming.