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Re:Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20M-a-year bill... by mrguyorama on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:32AM (#36152601)
It's more popular because the amount of absolute horseshit people are willing to wade through to get their fix of social media stuff is insane.

Reddit could replace half of the links with gruesome ISIS beheading videos and people would probably just keep scrolling. Only something like a third of all web users even have an ad blocker.

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Re:Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20M-a-year bill... by KptMarchewa on Thursday June 01, 2023 @12:29PM (#36153532)
>Reddit could replace half of the links with gruesome ISIS beheading videos and people would probably just keep scrolling

That would absolutely increase engagement.

>Only something like a third of all web users even have an ad blocker.

That's actually way higher than I thought...

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