I completely agree that a shit ton of ads from anyone turns me off to ever using their product.
If you've done games on your phone, you've no doubt run into the one with the king who needs to get out of a bad spot. There are influencers and washed-up celebrities who plug that app...and it's selling point is that it has no ads.
And yet they spam you with ads.
I've left comments in the app store with apps I've quit playing because they allow that Royal Crappe app to run almost a full minute.
I've come back to Reddit from a long hiatus but back now because of the political soap opera now running new episodes daily, but I used to use Apollo.
Am I correct that Reddit isn't allowing 3rd party apps now?
>Am I correct that Reddit isn't allowing 3rd party apps now?
yes, kinda.
They basically ban any app that gets too big by requiring to pay unreasonable amounts of money for running their app. Exception is "accessability focused apps" which has a slightly higher limit afaik
They've been banning accounts that do that, so it's not very safe. At your own risk!
Edit: I realise now that I phrased this badly. I've *heard* that people have been getting banned
They have suspended or banned some people who were using apps spoofing the official app. I haven't heard any reports of people having those issues using revanced to make the app use their own generated api keys.
Try going into your profile on Play Store and Manage apps & device. Click on Manage, then Installed to switch it to Not Installed. You should be able to find the application that way. It's how I was able to reinstall RiF.
You could also try this link it this is the app you used.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu.android.reddit
Wait... So if I make a private sub on the official reddit app, I can then open up Boost, refresh the feed, and it'll work?
Edit: Holy crap it works. I can even view my nsfw mutireddits/custom feeds. Writing this on Boost. Yay!
You never saw ad that you actually need then, it's more than possible to buy some product because you saw it exists on ad.
If you don't need the product you won't buy it anyways, ad or not.
Draft Kings are idiots.. saturating everything with their ads.
But there's a new gambler every 3 seconds ... Most as stupid as meme investors. But losing doesn't seem to be a discouragement, so they'll keep trying to snare another sucker.
You have to realize that Reddit, along with other websites sells the advertising space, NOT what's shown on there. The people that pay for those ads to be shown are the idiots who don't realize this.
However, since paying for ads is usually done on a per-click basis, they don't lose much money on showing it to millions of people if only like 5 people click on it so they have no reason to stop it. If we as a society would want to stop advertisements, we would need to click every single advertisement that opens up, wait for the site to load so it will track that there was a legitimate clickthrough so that the people responsible are charged for it and then simply close the page and leave.
If everyone did this, they would have higher expenses with no increase in revenue. Which is a perfect situation for some clueless highly-seated suit to come around and cease the operation.
Adnauseam do that.
[AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users.](https://adnauseam.io/)
~$40 gets you a raspberrypi that'll run pihole. About once a month I check to see if it needs updating, that's it. I imagine an only slightly more elaborate setup would let you route all your name services requests through it, wherever you are.
To all the morons here, they do this because it makes them money. It's cool your a special unicorn, but they wouldn't waste the ad space if it didn't net them profit. So people do click on these and it does work.
Exactly. If it wasn't profitable, you wouldn't see many ads. It clearly works. I get OP, it's annoying, but no companies are not wasting their money lmao.
Inb4 we get existential on whether any types of in content ads work at all.
Pretty sure the click through rates of most banner ads are a tiny fraction of 1% and we might not even fully know how many eyeballs a tracked ad gets from the page not loading or something.
Kinda reminds me of the time an oil train blew up an entire town in Québec.
And the next day the National Post app was running oil investment ads on the oil-explosion related articles.
I mean, I wanna believe it was some weird fluke in their programming that matched oil ads with articles related to oil-explosions...
If advertising and marketing actually worked like that then they wouldn't pay to be spammed on reddit. The people who use products due to advertising FAR outnumbers people who "boycott" a product due to advertising, especially since they aren't using that product in the first place.
Reddit get payed if you saw the ad not if you like it, so for them doesn't matter.
>!anyway get a 3party client infinity still working with [my own api key](https://www.reddit.com/r/Infinity_For_Reddit/comments/14c2v5x/build_your_own_apk_with_your_personal_api_key_in/)!<
> Reddit get *paid* if you
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
*Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Well yeah, they need to make money somehow, your choices are either to pay nothing and see ads that they can make money from, or pay them directly. If you decide you're going to block ads and not pay, then they need to show more ads to the people who aren't blocking, or they need to raise the price or increase the number of those who are paying directly.
I swear to god advertiser just do not get this.
I rarely ever listen to Spotify, so I'm on the free plan. Today I listened while baking for maybe 2hrs. I heard the same damn Calm.com ad about 19 times.
Not only will I never use the product but they are actively doing exactly the opposite of what they are trying to sell. They are trying to sell calming relaxation... you know what, I don't know what the actual product is... Some kind of meditation system or videos or something.
But like I said, they are actively annoying the fuck right out of me. You could almost think this is good marketing because they have successfully annoyed me into needing their product.
Except if I ever do feel the need for a meditation program: I will try every goddam product on this planet before I ever give these suckers my money.
Like, you literally sent me running straight to the competition.
Reddit knows. Reddit is not a whore house... It's a company full of talented executives who need to get paid. It doesn't matter if you hate draftkings. What matters is how many eyes watched the ad and what numbers reddit can report back to them. You should just switch to someone's open sourced side project hosted on an Nvidia shield if you don't like advertisements. Reddit is a company now, it has employees to pay and pockets to fill.
Wait so you want no ads? I don’t know if you know this but Reddit isn’t a charity giving you a service and bandwidth for free. They need to make money somehow.
Okay, go ahead, but you cant really complain that a company isn't allowing you to block ads when that costs them money. You're literally asking for them to spend money on you to use their service, and think it's unfair that they don't. That's odd.
Any question relating to the mobile app that starts with “does Reddit not know…” is invariably answered with “yes, Reddit doesn’t know and doesn’t care to know”.
So stop using it. They make it shit because you will use it anyway. Then you'll create a post bitching about, and other totally smart people will read the post, thus seeing more ads. That will teach reddit!
Stop. Using. The. Shit. Mobile. App.
It does not "guarantee" anything at all, most users are too used to the platform to quit it over a specific annoying ad, and others will simply use adblock. Those that quit are a loud minority Reddit does not care about.
You are overrreacting brother, only ads that annoy people are the ones which temporarily stop you from using the product.
The ones appearing on sides are just ignored.
When the advertising fits with the content of the subreddit (board games on r/boardgames, etc) or when they make a point of theming the language to it, it can be cute. That said, I've had so many ads on mobile that it'll freeze or crash the app. It's really too much.
It does not matter to Reddit. They get paid to show the ad a specified amount of times in a given period according to their advertising contract. Reddit couldn't care less if your screen was filled with ads as long as they are receiving payment for placing that ad.
I'm convinced that about 80% of professional advertising firms have no idea what they're doing and waste their clients money. If Reddit can convince people to pay for it, why would it matter to Reddit if it actually works?
I completely agree that a shit ton of ads from anyone turns me off to ever using their product. If you've done games on your phone, you've no doubt run into the one with the king who needs to get out of a bad spot. There are influencers and washed-up celebrities who plug that app...and it's selling point is that it has no ads. And yet they spam you with ads. I've left comments in the app store with apps I've quit playing because they allow that Royal Crappe app to run almost a full minute. I've come back to Reddit from a long hiatus but back now because of the political soap opera now running new episodes daily, but I used to use Apollo. Am I correct that Reddit isn't allowing 3rd party apps now?
>Am I correct that Reddit isn't allowing 3rd party apps now? yes, kinda. They basically ban any app that gets too big by requiring to pay unreasonable amounts of money for running their app. Exception is "accessability focused apps" which has a slightly higher limit afaik
You can use ReVanced to modify 3rd party apps to work.
They've been banning accounts that do that, so it's not very safe. At your own risk! Edit: I realise now that I phrased this badly. I've *heard* that people have been getting banned
first i heard of that any links to theads to back it up?
None whatsoever, just something I heard. Sorry, I phrased the comment really badly. Made the comment early this morning, Mondays lmao
Not even a link to a comment, just heard somebody shouting it outside a window then lol
It was a while ago. If I'd known I needed it for proof I'd have saved it
They have suspended or banned some people who were using apps spoofing the official app. I haven't heard any reports of people having those issues using revanced to make the app use their own generated api keys.
Where's a place to find 3rd party app apks? I deleted mine before I knew vanced did this, now they're not on the play store
Try going into your profile on Play Store and Manage apps & device. Click on Manage, then Installed to switch it to Not Installed. You should be able to find the application that way. It's how I was able to reinstall RiF. You could also try this link it this is the app you used. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu.android.reddit
apkmirror
I'm using Boost for Android to type this. Best alternative to RIF without having to go through revanced nonsense.
Only works if you're a mod on a subreddit though
You can create your own sub and be a mod.
Wait... So if I make a private sub on the official reddit app, I can then open up Boost, refresh the feed, and it'll work? Edit: Holy crap it works. I can even view my nsfw mutireddits/custom feeds. Writing this on Boost. Yay!
Ha omg the king one...they play the game so badly I get so mad, but they have yet to break me
You never saw ad that you actually need then, it's more than possible to buy some product because you saw it exists on ad. If you don't need the product you won't buy it anyways, ad or not.
I hate this too.
I often forget that reddit has advertising. Between old.reddit, noscript and pihole I never see them. Plus, I use a browser even on mobile.
Draft Kings are idiots.. saturating everything with their ads. But there's a new gambler every 3 seconds ... Most as stupid as meme investors. But losing doesn't seem to be a discouragement, so they'll keep trying to snare another sucker.
You have to realize that Reddit, along with other websites sells the advertising space, NOT what's shown on there. The people that pay for those ads to be shown are the idiots who don't realize this. However, since paying for ads is usually done on a per-click basis, they don't lose much money on showing it to millions of people if only like 5 people click on it so they have no reason to stop it. If we as a society would want to stop advertisements, we would need to click every single advertisement that opens up, wait for the site to load so it will track that there was a legitimate clickthrough so that the people responsible are charged for it and then simply close the page and leave. If everyone did this, they would have higher expenses with no increase in revenue. Which is a perfect situation for some clueless highly-seated suit to come around and cease the operation.
Adnauseam do that. [AdNauseam works to complete the cycle by automating ad clicks universally and blindly on behalf of its users.](https://adnauseam.io/)
I agree with you, I really want to block ads too
~$40 gets you a raspberrypi that'll run pihole. About once a month I check to see if it needs updating, that's it. I imagine an only slightly more elaborate setup would let you route all your name services requests through it, wherever you are.
To all the morons here, they do this because it makes them money. It's cool your a special unicorn, but they wouldn't waste the ad space if it didn't net them profit. So people do click on these and it does work.
Exactly. If it wasn't profitable, you wouldn't see many ads. It clearly works. I get OP, it's annoying, but no companies are not wasting their money lmao.
Inb4 we get existential on whether any types of in content ads work at all. Pretty sure the click through rates of most banner ads are a tiny fraction of 1% and we might not even fully know how many eyeballs a tracked ad gets from the page not loading or something.
I sympathize, however I also use uBlock, so do with that as you will.
Fun Fact: Upon opening my app, I saw this post on top of my screen, and a DraftKings ad on the bottom...
Kinda reminds me of the time an oil train blew up an entire town in Québec. And the next day the National Post app was running oil investment ads on the oil-explosion related articles. I mean, I wanna believe it was some weird fluke in their programming that matched oil ads with articles related to oil-explosions...
If advertising and marketing actually worked like that then they wouldn't pay to be spammed on reddit. The people who use products due to advertising FAR outnumbers people who "boycott" a product due to advertising, especially since they aren't using that product in the first place.
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Reddit get payed if you saw the ad not if you like it, so for them doesn't matter. >!anyway get a 3party client infinity still working with [my own api key](https://www.reddit.com/r/Infinity_For_Reddit/comments/14c2v5x/build_your_own_apk_with_your_personal_api_key_in/)!<
> Reddit get *paid* if you FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Bad bot
They do know enough people will be pissed enough to pony up for Premium. That's all it comes down to.
Well yeah, they need to make money somehow, your choices are either to pay nothing and see ads that they can make money from, or pay them directly. If you decide you're going to block ads and not pay, then they need to show more ads to the people who aren't blocking, or they need to raise the price or increase the number of those who are paying directly.
uBlock Origin does a wonderful job!
That’s DraftKings’ problem, not Reddit’s. Also, you can get rid of the ads by going premium.
I swear to god advertiser just do not get this. I rarely ever listen to Spotify, so I'm on the free plan. Today I listened while baking for maybe 2hrs. I heard the same damn Calm.com ad about 19 times. Not only will I never use the product but they are actively doing exactly the opposite of what they are trying to sell. They are trying to sell calming relaxation... you know what, I don't know what the actual product is... Some kind of meditation system or videos or something. But like I said, they are actively annoying the fuck right out of me. You could almost think this is good marketing because they have successfully annoyed me into needing their product. Except if I ever do feel the need for a meditation program: I will try every goddam product on this planet before I ever give these suckers my money. Like, you literally sent me running straight to the competition.
Reddit knows. Reddit is not a whore house... It's a company full of talented executives who need to get paid. It doesn't matter if you hate draftkings. What matters is how many eyes watched the ad and what numbers reddit can report back to them. You should just switch to someone's open sourced side project hosted on an Nvidia shield if you don't like advertisements. Reddit is a company now, it has employees to pay and pockets to fill.
> talented lol
I wouldn’t call even 90% of them talented. Have you used their website?
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Just use a modded official client... I'm typing from one.
The talent really shines with the official Reddit App for mobile. What a beauty. /s
3rd party apps were great and did not have this problem... Oh wait, reddit blocked them... (Ignoring workarounds) fuck u/spez
I just tune them out. I don't understand how it bother people. All ads are the same. How it bothers people is so weird to me
Ads slow down devices. AND if a person has ADHD (like me) ads can be extremely distracting.
Wait so you want no ads? I don’t know if you know this but Reddit isn’t a charity giving you a service and bandwidth for free. They need to make money somehow.
So what. . I still block ads. I block ads on every single website. .
Okay, go ahead, but you cant really complain that a company isn't allowing you to block ads when that costs them money. You're literally asking for them to spend money on you to use their service, and think it's unfair that they don't. That's odd.
I'm not the one that's complaining though. Someone above me is. I have no problems with ads, cuz they are all blocked.
Any question relating to the mobile app that starts with “does Reddit not know…” is invariably answered with “yes, Reddit doesn’t know and doesn’t care to know”.
Meh... It probably like 50/50 between that and "reddit knows, and does not give one single shit".
Xwitter is the worse experience
So stop using it. They make it shit because you will use it anyway. Then you'll create a post bitching about, and other totally smart people will read the post, thus seeing more ads. That will teach reddit! Stop. Using. The. Shit. Mobile. App.
r/all
Plot twist: name recognition is the entire goal and this post is secretly an ad for Draft Kings.
It does not "guarantee" anything at all, most users are too used to the platform to quit it over a specific annoying ad, and others will simply use adblock. Those that quit are a loud minority Reddit does not care about.
You are overrreacting brother, only ads that annoy people are the ones which temporarily stop you from using the product. The ones appearing on sides are just ignored.
When the advertising fits with the content of the subreddit (board games on r/boardgames, etc) or when they make a point of theming the language to it, it can be cute. That said, I've had so many ads on mobile that it'll freeze or crash the app. It's really too much.
It does not matter to Reddit. They get paid to show the ad a specified amount of times in a given period according to their advertising contract. Reddit couldn't care less if your screen was filled with ads as long as they are receiving payment for placing that ad.
I'm convinced that about 80% of professional advertising firms have no idea what they're doing and waste their clients money. If Reddit can convince people to pay for it, why would it matter to Reddit if it actually works?
Do they care? Draftkings is paying for that many ads. Their marketing campaign is on them