• Hyperreality@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Reddit users are product not customers.

    The product is the data they mine from users. The reddit app is almost certainly loaded with telemetry and tracking.

    This is data that can be sold. Likely worth more than the increased ad revenue from users who know how to block ads on their phone.

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      1 year ago

      Its always worth to look at the amount of Data used between the official app and third party. Before unsinstalling i realised that sync for reddit had about 2 thirds the amount of tzraffic that the offical app uses…