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Reddit app has to cram in those ads, and they don't want you to scroll too fast past those gorgeous ads.
Or reddit is refusing to pay their developers well, while small app projects are made out of passion.
Not just ads, but trackers and whatever else they can use to wrangle data from your phone.
Yep. It's like adobe acrobat reader.
You can use the official app. Slow and bloated.
You can use something like sumatra or foxit, they're faster and takes up almost no diskspace.
IRC acrobat has trackers and telemetry included, allowing it to send data to adobe about where your mouse hovered, etc. etc.
Same for reddit. Reddit.com doesn't consider users customers. We're product. There to be mined for (personal) data.
Apparently some organisations block Sumatra now, which is screwy as hell.
Edge can edit PDFs now to fill and sign forms and such, fuck installing anything anymore.
Sumatra is so lightweight though, you literally don't have to wait. IMO it's the best viewer.
What??? Why??
Ads... Ads everywhere...
It's reaching Facebook levels. I just can't.
The API pricing is shit, but I care more about how I’m forced into an app with ads. That’s really the straw that made me seek alternatives in earnest.
The app also heats up my phone like games do.
RiF and Sync do not. Because they are made by people who care about user experience.
Takes a lot of power to do that data collection...