[weejewel]

Why don’t they just introduce Reddit Premium, for say $5/mo, which is ad-free and allows 3rd party clients.

[menus]

They do not want 3rd party clients to exist which is why they are not doing what would logically make sense: limiting it to Premium.

[jorams]

Reddit Premium exists for $5.99/month, but there's no mention of it for the API changes.

[Zren]

Then you can get an LLM company to easily scrape Reddit for $5 instead of $100000. The main reason for this change is to monetize the usage, not the access.

[TulliusCicero]

That would probably kill third party clients because their userbase would be too small.

[leovander]

Uh, they already offer that.

https://www.reddit.com/premium

[ubercore]

There's nothing about third party client access there. That's the important part.