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That's not how the deal works though.

The deal with WWW is as follows:

You provide a website on the server. The client downloads it and decides how to render it. An API is going to be more efficient than HTML plus all the bells and whistles. But if you don't provide a reasonable API we go back to the stone age of HTML clients which parse and scrape. It is going to be more nuisance for client and server. Load is more intense and it requires more bandwidth at the cost of user engagement. And you'll get barely more advertising income.

The reasonable fix is paywall; stop with the advertisement BS and enforce a per month subscription per account regardless how the client communicates.

>>Fnoord+(OP)
We are at this inflection point where it is becoming practical to defeat any captcha services and extract information by screenshots with the help of AI. It is going to be a losing battle for the gatekeepers, as coming up with all the defenses and serving it is going to cost them more than keeping the API open. I hope they lose everything so future platform controllers won't repeat this mistake.

>>Fnoord+(OP)
> The reasonable fix is paywall; stop with the advertisement BS and enforce a per month subscription per account regardless how the client communicates.

This feels the most fair to me honestly. Using RiF subverts reddit income by not showing ads. So just let me the user pay a bit to use third party apps. Considering how much time I spend on it a couple bucks should be reasonable.

>>Fnoord+(OP)
> The reasonable fix is paywall; stop with the advertisement BS and enforce a per month subscription per account regardless how the client communicates.

I'd be willing to shell out the bucks for Reddit Premium if that would let me keep using Apollo.