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Re:Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat t... by bastawhiz on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:05AM (#36197202)
> but to force users to use their crappy app so they can track users better

That's the point: let the users pay you to make up for the (potential?) revenue you're not making from tracking them. Estimates put reddit at something like $0.25 per user. Pushing them to the official app might _generously_ triple that number. Versus the user paying $5/mo? It's a braindead business case to say that users in your official app are materially better than the same users directly paying for the service they actually want.

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Re:Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat t... by ToniCipriani on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:21AM (#36197512)
Sounds to me they want to double dip: charge you AND track you.
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Re:Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat t... by savanaly on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:08AM (#36197259)
One problem is the type of user who opts to pay even $5 is probably worth more than triple the average. There’s the users who have money to spend at the top and a very long tail of non-spenders at the bottom dragging that average value down.
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Re:Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat t... by bastawhiz on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:13AM (#36197356)
They're hypothetically worth more in a world where they started out in the official app. In our universe where Reddit is fucking those users, they're far more likely to simply stop using Reddit altogether. And many of them will. Reddit will be lucky if they break even.
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