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They were generous with the gold because they're probably going to shut AlienBlue down. AB doesn't have any ads, they can't make money off those users.

• ihuman 11y ago
  They're not shutting AlienBlue down, but they removed it from the App Store, and they are not updating it anymore.
  • jbob2000 11y ago
    They can shut it down by changing the reddit API so it no longer works, thus forcing users to switch to the new app.
    • ihuman 11y ago
      If they do that, they would break every 3rd party reddit app, which reddit said they wouldn't do. Of course, that doesn't mean their position will change in the future.
      • outericky 11y ago
        no, they could just disable the AB API key...
  • wvenable 11y ago
    Ugh. So disappointed.
• shostack 11y ago
  Uh...what are you talking about? AlienBlue has sponsored posts that show up in the feed. It is incredibly annoying too. Unless it is because they screwed up the whole "pay for AlienBlue" thing they did a while back and I wasn't supposed to be seeing ads this whole time despite having paid... My guess though is that this new version will have more of a focus on ads and monetization for sure.