The pricing Reddit is charging is obscene and would mean that Apollo would be forced to pay $20 million per year to keep the app running. Other popular third-party apps would have to pay similarly outrageous costs. It’s clearly a blatant attempt to run them off Reddit so the site can force users to use its first-party app instead.
I wish all articles covering the debacle but it at clearly as this.
They have something else in common: Bots.
And then there's one more thing in common: they get paid for bot activity just the same as organic activity so they're incentivized to under-report the problem.
Before the IPO happens, they have to rid themselves of third-party clients so that the app store numbers can't be extrapolated to verify site-wide user activity.
they have to rid themselves of third-party clients so that the app store numbers can't be extrapolated to verify site-wide user activity.
I must be having a pre-morning-coffee dumb, but how would this extrapolation realistically work, in your opinion? Those install numbers aren't exactly... exact, from what I understand.
I wish all articles covering the debacle but it at clearly as this.
They have something else in common: Bots.
And then there's one more thing in common: they get paid for bot activity just the same as organic activity so they're incentivized to under-report the problem.
Before the IPO happens, they have to rid themselves of third-party clients so that the app store numbers can't be extrapolated to verify site-wide user activity.
I must be having a pre-morning-coffee dumb, but how would this extrapolation realistically work, in your opinion? Those install numbers aren't exactly... exact, from what I understand.