• MrWiggles
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    1 year ago

    They don’t get to sell as much of your attention with third party apps. It’s money out of their pocket, the way they see it. The irony is they don’t actually produce any content. jus tleech off those who do.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      I know why they are doing it, but I was wondering more about the timing. These have all been around for years but it seems recently there is a sudden push to remove third party apps.

      Is there a new technology coming out, a new law, or as @[email protected] says is it just CEOs copying each other?

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        1 year ago

        My personal suspicion is that it has something to do with Apple’s changes around data collection - I’m not well versed in all the details but this article describes the overall changes in more depth. IMO, with first-party data collection becoming more important for Youtube and Reddit so they can sell more valuable ad space to other companies, they need to force everyone into their owned app to have the opportunity to collect that data.

    • henry
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      51 year ago

      thats the nub of it.

      “you must not profit from the content we did not create”