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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
Is the math that the dev did broadly accurate? If it is, it seems they could safely charge 10-19x less and get more revenue per-user than they do from ads alone... assuming that even a 10x lower cost would be affordable for third-party clients, which isn't a given.

>>jamilt+a21
Those users might be worth 10x as much as the average user though.

>>aemble+s31
They're heavy users, but something tells me that they're also likely to block ads.

>>solark+oc1
I think it's more about the fact that the users are paying for the service. The % of reddit's userbase that has enough disposable income to subscribe is a very very very high value slice for advertisers.