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I’m curious, are there any apps that are paying these new fees?

• KMnO4 3y ago
  Narwhal allegedly is, and is currently covering the cost but will introduce subscriptions to pay for it in coming months. https://www.reddit.com/r/getnarwhal/comments/14kt9wj/narwhal_is_not_going_anywhere_subscriptions_and/ https://www.reddit.com/r/getnarwhal/comments/14kt9wj/narwhal...
• LeoPanthera 3y ago
  Even if you pay the new fees, no app is allowed to show "NSFW" content, which is now unavailable in the API. I'm tired of tech companies being run by puritans.
  • Hemospectrum 3y ago
    It's the credit card companies. Showing users nudity for free is fine. Making them pay for it means you're selling porn and the payment processors ban you. Reddit wants to make users pay for viewing content. They can't get away with that if the content is NSFW.
    • dymk 3y ago
      Reddits income is via ads, not cc payments This is the advertisers
      • Hemospectrum 3y ago
        This is about the API, which is no longer free. They are specifically blocking NSFW content from the paid API (and, by extension, from anything that uses it) so that they can charge money for it.
        • dymk 3y ago
          given the prices they were quoting for API usage, they’re not taking payment through a credit card
    • flangola7 3y ago
      Why do processors care? Why does it matter if the domain is pornhub.com or reddit.com?
      • charcircuit 3y ago
        Most notably higher chargeback rates
        • rlex 3y ago
          ..which leads to fines from visa/mc/etc, and putting you to "watchlist". And those fines are pretty expensive. Very few companies in CC processing market would like to risk their business for some adult processing. Easier and safer to just drop it completely.
        • flangola7 3y ago
          Why are chargebacks higher? Why can't that just be accounted for in the processor's rates?
          • charcircuit 3y ago
            >Why are chargebacks higher? People pretend their purchases are fraud or regret their purchase later so they chargeback more frequently than other services. >Why can't that just be accounted for in the processor's rates? Because it's easier as a credit card processor to just drop all of your high risk clients and focus on serving the rest of your customers as best as you can. Of course that leaves a whole in the market for other credit card processors that charge more for allowing higher risk purchasing.
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  • TheCycoONE 3y ago
    RedReader still appears to?
  • MBCook 3y ago
    They want advertisers. That’s their business model. Advertisers don’t want to be associated with that. No dead babies. No watch people die. No horrific injuries. No sex. No weird/freaky/strange/whatever sex. They want to advertise next to unobjectionable content so they can’t be drawn into stuff or have their reputation tarnished by accident.
• jayknight 3y ago
  Relay is. Right now it's free, but they'll soon be charging a monthly subscription to keep using the app. https://www.reddit.com/r/RelayForReddit/comments/14n876v/update_relay_will_continue_to_operate_from_july/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RelayForReddit/comments/14n876v/upd...
• NovaDudely 3y ago
  Red Reader got an exception (for now) because it was open source. They don't need to pay for access. It is very bare bones but works. https://f-droid.org/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/ https://f-droid.org/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/
  • jacooper 3y ago
    Infinity still works for some reason too, it's also open source.