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> Why should the app developer pay anything at all?

Because Reddit makes money off the ads. They can't guarantee third parties will always show the ads in the way they've designed.

So now they are charging third parties the cost of losing ad views.

>>raydev+(OP)
So only allow Reddit premium users to use third party apps, like how Spotify does.

>>sorenj+81
If the user is already paying reddit directly, it's even less likely they are using a third party client. All the benefits are in the first party app.

And then Reddit would have to audit third party apps to ensure paying users are getting what they pay for. Sounds more onerous than just making third parties pay up.

>>raydev+D2
I can log in with my Spotify premium account to a number of third party clients without expecting them to contain the same thing as the official one, no auditing by Spotify needed.