[dylan604]

>All the bad press

You're forgetting the adage, "there is no such thing as bad press". If you're not a user of the 3rd party apps, then none of these decisions affect you, and most people are just not going to get upset about things that don't affect them directly.

[katbyte]

> If you're not a user of the 3rd party apps, then none of these decisions affect you

likely untrue. its not just 3rd party apps it affects. it changes api access for anything using the API

for instance modtools will be affected which means literally everyone can be affected desktop or not https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/12rt5f8/how_wil...

some subreddits make heavy use of bots

these are all going to be hugely affected

[threeseed]

Of course there is such thing as bad press.

Look at companies like Theranos where it was the investigative reporting that ultimately led to their downfall.

And as someone who has been on Reddit for 16 years and has never used a 3rd party app this decision does affect me. a) I think less of the company and the site which will affect my engagement and b) It affects everyone else on the site which in turns affects their engagement and the quality of their posts.

[dylan604]

Theranos was doing shady shit and ripping off investors. That's illegal. Bad press didn't shut them down. Criminal investigations shut them down and the CEO is now actually in jail.

Confusing illegal activity with activity you disagree with is not doing the conversation (or society in general) a bit of good

[JohnFen]

> You're forgetting the adage, "there is no such thing as bad press"

Yeah, but that adage has never been true. It's just something said by people who get bad press to make themselves feel better.

[e40]

I feel like in the age of cancel culture, this adage isn't really a thing anymore. News travels too far and too fast.