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this is why i use old reddit
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Until they close it down...
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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
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
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.