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by croutonwagon 1141 days ago
Apollo basically did that a while back by shoving adds to paid lifetime users about subscriptions. I abandoned use of that app at the time while christian started only allowing "one thread a day" related to his change there and claiming he needs the subcription money to live (while having in the past begged for donations to buy ridiculous things like the apple apple and mount).

I am not a fan of subscription culture in general and I had paid a lifetime fee he agreed upon to avoid such ads but he simply changed the definition of an ad to be a "reddit ad". I also used to toss him tip jar donations occaisonally because the app was good. But he seemed to get greedy after his virtual tamogachi.

RedPlanet does well but honestly I use reddit for less and less every day, despite my account being 16y 11m old.