> simply because they want to cut costs on their infrastructure to protect their bottom line. This line doesn't make sense, since it doesn't "cut costs" to mak

> simply because they want to cut costs on their infrastructure to protect their bottom line. This line doesn't make sense, since it doesn't "cut costs" to make a user use a particular user-agent instead of their preferred browser, nor does it "protect their bottom line". There's a potential argument that using custom clients that block ads costs Reddit ad revenue, but it wouldn't if using custom clients had been made a perk of, say, Reddit Premium which is already ad-free. There's an argument that somehow Reddit is "losing out" on third party client subscription revenue, but that's like saying web sites should share revenue from a commercial web browser, or ISPs should share revenue from subscription web sites. Hard to argue for either if one believes in net neutrality.