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At this point they should have enough datapoints to know whether their strategy works out. Them continuing indicates that the hints of the loud is just the whis
by slightwinder 6y ago
At this point they should have enough datapoints to know whether their strategy works out. Them continuing indicates that the hints of the loud is just the whistling of a minority.
- throwaway2048 6y agoThat makes the assumption that the user is both happy with the "reddit app" even though they are being railroaded into using it and that the interests of reddit and the user are coincident.
- crocodiletears 6y agoNo, it just makes the assumption that most users (with value to reddit) will tolerate the practice in order to get to the site's content. Whether or not they're happy with the app or being railroaded is orthogonal.
- Traster 6y agoOr they're just incompetently ploughing through with a strategy that's damaging them.
- TechBro8615 6y agoTheir mobile website is so atrociously bad, and the mobile app is not much better. Personally I use the Apollo app; it's 100x better than either, and I know reddit is only tracking me insofar as the API requests Apollo sends to them.