Our only real means of pushback against practices like this is to avoid working for companies that rely on them. When reddit recruiters or hiring managers cold

Our only real means of pushback against practices like this is to avoid working for companies that rely on them. When reddit recruiters or hiring managers cold reach out to you, do what I do and politely tell them that reddit's new growth strategies make working there a total non-starters. Not every company has this little respect for its users when it comes to funnelling traffic, it's completely reasonable for a native and web-app to coexist happily, even if the latter results in less lucrative ad impressions.