New Reddit has a lot more tracing and BI, tracking user behavior in order to suggest ads/content. It’s part of why the New site is so much slower to scroll through, but it does mean a lot more data for Reddit to work with regarding their users.
Not to mention the dark UX patterns like hiding comments behind a More button, which itself is tracked and may serve an ad alongside the comments fetched.
@LimitedBrain@millionsofplayers commenting on masto just to test that out, from what I hear reddit is going public soon, and removing third party apps is a product of that. somewhere around 5% of people use old reddit so they may axe that off when they go public. That’s when I just fully leave reddit
I don’t use reddit on desktop often. Is there a reason they’d stop supporting it? Other than just not caring to provide updates of course
They may remove it to funnel more people towards new reddit, which lets them serveore ads and get more trackimg data than the old reddit site.
New Reddit has a lot more tracing and BI, tracking user behavior in order to suggest ads/content. It’s part of why the New site is so much slower to scroll through, but it does mean a lot more data for Reddit to work with regarding their users.
Not to mention the dark UX patterns like hiding comments behind a More button, which itself is tracked and may serve an ad alongside the comments fetched.
@LimitedBrain @millionsofplayers commenting on masto just to test that out, from what I hear reddit is going public soon, and removing third party apps is a product of that. somewhere around 5% of people use old reddit so they may axe that off when they go public. That’s when I just fully leave reddit