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>>robbie+(OP)
The reality is that Apollo doesn't serve intrusive ads, and thus, every user using Apollo instead of their own first party apps is lost revenue. Unfortunately, reddit is in that late stage monetization step where they need to prove they are capable of big revenue to justify a high IPO share price.

One can only hope there'll be a watershed moment like the one that killed Digg. So far, reddit has been very careful raising the temperature so as to not scare the frog before it's dead.

>>api_or+vL
Why would they IPO? Just take the money you make now and be happy. They need to pay back the VC money they stupidly took very late, but it's not like they need to fund future dev? Another bad redesign? Many people use these alternative apps because the UI on Reddit is pretty bad. They should force ads into the api stream and just call it a day. These 3rd party developers are doing the work for you that the reddit employees cannot figure out on their own.