▲ 421 ▼ ‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by Satelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.social to c/reddit@lemmy.world 107 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago (3 children) Next step: charging 1 dollar a year to maintain an account there permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] hightrix@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago I hope they both block Google and start charging for accounts. Watching Reddit kill themselves will be so cathartic. My schadenfreude can only get so much stronger. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Delphia@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 child) I found Reddit so useful that I would have paid but only for the user experience I wanted. not the stream of vomit their app wanted to show me. Im almost 40, I've got a pretty good job I can cover another subscription. I wouldnt have liked it, but I could have. This is what pisses me off about tech companies. Tell me "for $20 a month you get the fully customisable app with no tracking for advertising or data mining or use the free add supported, try and sell you shit app" give me the option, I will pay to not be annoyed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rurutheguru@lemmings.world 8 points 2 years ago Exactly this. I wasn't paying for using third party apps because I hated reddit as a website. I payed because it offered me the user experience I desired. Customization, ad-free, privacy-focus, etc. If they offered that with a paid solution to an official "pro/premium" app, I would have been interested in buying a yearly subscription. But no, the baseline experience on the official app is the same for everyone. Zero customization, doesn't even support the core moderation functions that the site's mods and maintainers need to do what they do (for free). permalink fedilink source parent [–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* Spez will charge $2. Because, in the immortal words of Shel Silverstein, “two is more than one”. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago I hope they both block Google and start charging for accounts. Watching Reddit kill themselves will be so cathartic. My schadenfreude can only get so much stronger. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 child) I found Reddit so useful that I would have paid but only for the user experience I wanted. not the stream of vomit their app wanted to show me. Im almost 40, I've got a pretty good job I can cover another subscription. I wouldnt have liked it, but I could have. This is what pisses me off about tech companies. Tell me "for $20 a month you get the fully customisable app with no tracking for advertising or data mining or use the free add supported, try and sell you shit app" give me the option, I will pay to not be annoyed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] rurutheguru@lemmings.world 8 points 2 years ago Exactly this. I wasn't paying for using third party apps because I hated reddit as a website. I payed because it offered me the user experience I desired. Customization, ad-free, privacy-focus, etc. If they offered that with a paid solution to an official "pro/premium" app, I would have been interested in buying a yearly subscription. But no, the baseline experience on the official app is the same for everyone. Zero customization, doesn't even support the core moderation functions that the site's mods and maintainers need to do what they do (for free). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rurutheguru@lemmings.world 8 points 2 years ago Exactly this. I wasn't paying for using third party apps because I hated reddit as a website. I payed because it offered me the user experience I desired. Customization, ad-free, privacy-focus, etc. If they offered that with a paid solution to an official "pro/premium" app, I would have been interested in buying a yearly subscription. But no, the baseline experience on the official app is the same for everyone. Zero customization, doesn't even support the core moderation functions that the site's mods and maintainers need to do what they do (for free). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* Spez will charge $2. Because, in the immortal words of Shel Silverstein, “two is more than one”. permalink fedilink source parent