• complacent_jerboa@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They make them money because:

    • they use reddit
    • spez gets some nice usage stats to show off
    • as a direct consequence, advertisers keep paying to put their ads
    • also as a direct consequence, investors’ confidence in reddit continues to recover; there’s a real possibility that, when it IPOs, it will actually go for a decent price

    Now, if enough people go commit ad-block, and advertisers somehow become wise to that fact… then maybe it will hurt reddit’s bottom line (at which point spez will start trying to emulate youtube’s anti-ad stuff).

    But as it stands, especially if most of reddit’s usage is through reddit’s mobile app… I’m not really sure how you can block ads there.

    • gridleaf@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Those are fair points. Regarding adblock in the official app, you can use ReVanced to patch an .apk similar to how you block ads in YouTube.