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by mattstir 1099 days ago
> The only reason people are protesting api pricing is because they want to protest. The actual concern here isn't what they are protesting.

No...? It's a decision that impacts millions of people that rely solely on third-party apps to have any decent experience on Reddit at all. The "official" app is a hot dumpster fire and lacks incredibly basic accessibility features, among other shortcomings. The official app is a joke but instead of making it better to entice more users onto it (and thus see more ads), they just exploded the entire community.