Finally tried the official Reddit app. It's as bad as they say.

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[–] 57 points 3 years ago

Yep since the first party app's primary goal is to generate revenue (over actually providing a good user experience), it's packed full of everything to achieve revenue generation:

  • Ads
  • Tons of tracking to figure out how long you viewed something, what you clicked on, and so on to build an advertising profile that can be sold
  • Obtrusive Ads
  • Lots of suggested/recommended stuff to get you to keep your eyeballs on the app longer
  • Ads masquerading as real submissions
  • Paid promotions

Third party apps don't have revenue generation as their sole highest priority (if at all), so naturally they strip out all of that stuff which makes for a terrible user experience.

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