Seems unlikely. How many people have installed AMP blockers specifically on ios15? How many people have installed AMP blockers on any other platform that's not being UA-sniffed?
Amplosion got a big boost by being made by the same guy who did Apollo (pretty much the de facto Reddit client on iOS).
I don't get bothered by AMP pages that much, but I paid the few euros for Amplosion just to support Christian's work and give a middle finger to Google's attempts to take over the web.
I actually generally like AMP, but I paid for the extension because AMP breaks native app URL listeners, so from an AMP page it's impossible to open the page in the native iOS app e.g. YouTube or Reddit. (FYI, free AMP blocker extensions quickly emerged after that paid one went viral.)
I don't care too much about AMP links but I bought Amplosion just to show my support for Christian, the author of Apollo. That app alone makes Reddit bearable. The official Reddit app is terrible and actively harms the browsing experience and makes it harder to find actual useful content on Reddit as opposed to all the pushed spam content.
Nah. Reddit’s client is the official Reddit client, but Apollo is the de facto one for people who want to actually use Reddit.
Also Apollo now has a Safari extension which will automatically redirect Reddit links to Apollo. Previously this was a manual process after the page already loaded after telling Reddit for the umpteen-billionth time you want Safari, not the official Reddit client.
This. I think I would actually give up on reddit without apollo, the official app and website are user-hostile. I wonder if they will tighten the API up and eventually kill third-party clients.
If Apollo is the interface, what is Reddit besides a JSON document store and object storage for media? Once Apollo is big enough (network effects, critical mass, whatevs), it could spin off of Reddit as the backend (Cloudflare R2 for objects, workers and KV for comments). You can even backfill from the numerous Reddit archives (Internet Archive, Pushshift, etc) out there.
(Apollo user with an interest in a distributed web platform)
Well Twitter on iOS started life as Tweetie which was an absolutely fantastic client on both iPhones and Macintoshes. I wouldn’t call it that now, even if some of the original Tweetie code is in there. Apollo with ads doesn’t seem like it is in Reddit’s business plan and after some time I think Apollo would go the way Tweetie did.
Edit: Something from the dredges of my memory just came back up and reminded me of something. The official Reddit client did start life as a 3rd party client: Alien Blue. [1]
So the real risk is Apollo becoming the next Alien Blue. Personally I would rather it stay independent.
> Apollo is not the defacto reddit client. Reddit's own app is.
Reddit's is the official client.
> Defacto: in fact, or in effect, whether by right or not
I think in this case the validity of the word "defacto" depends on your sample population. Apollo is very popular (and a fantastic reddit client, I wish there was an equivalent for HN) but I can't imagine it's marketshare is anywhere close to even 50%. Among tech enthusiasts I'll bet it ranks pretty high. Similar to an app like Overcast. If you poll HN or other tech communities I bet it's well represented but in the broader ecosystem it's a small fish.
100% agree. Thanks to Safari extensions (and the afore mentioned AMP redirector) you can now jump right into Apollo from a Reddit link and it's the best experience.
I hope the marketshare of the official client is at the very least high enough to prevent them from crippling APIs so third-party clients are gimped, like Twitter has done.
I'd be happy if someone would bake mobile teddit or other "proxies" app. I know site still works but this could be done more handy and with aiming at additional features, like pushing yt videos through invidious "pipe".
> Programs are also considered malware if they secretly act against the interests of the computer user.
There are two criteria that software must meet to fit this definition:
1. The software must act against the interests of the computer user.
2. This must be done "secretly".
I unfortunately do not know much about the Reddit App for iOS so I can't make a judgement as to whether it fits definition 2. I think I can say with confidence it fits definition 1.
I believe (s)he wanted imply reddit's official app displays a lot of inline advertisements and other stuff that makes it difficult to determine what is legit subscribed content and what is sneakily inserted by reddit.
I agree – the number is probably insignificant, but I don't think you have to restrict your estimate to people who hate AMP. Basically an average iOS user (likely using Google as it's still the default last I checked) who in the past installed an extension to block unwanted content (ads/malware/etc) may be blocking AMP links without even knowing what they are.
How many normal users have even heard of AMP?
Even among those technical enough to know or care about AMP, how many have installed and use these plugins? I haven’t.
I don’t see how blockers installed by a small percentage of techies would have much impact.
Question might be if it inspires more blocking elsewhere.
It is pretty bad news for AMP that Ampolosion exists. It would be even worse if Samsung noticed that popularity and implemented something similar in their browser, perhaps even by default.
I don't get bothered by AMP pages that much, but I paid the few euros for Amplosion just to support Christian's work and give a middle finger to Google's attempts to take over the web.