‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google - eviltoast
  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    They threaten to saw the branch they sit on.

    Btw, greed and jealousy are cancers that eat the brain.

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        Very much doubt it but they will lose a lot of causal trade page hits. A lot of finding solutions to things is why I end up.on Reddit now as it only useful result in Google.

        But the vast amount of people using it as social.media will stay

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        It won’t just be this but it’ll be things like this, further monetization schemes, and eventually killing old.reddit that are gonna keep chipping away at their faithful userbase.

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            That’s because all the admins are using old.reddit themselves.

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            They can see the numbers for new shit reddit and old reddit. They haven’t gotten rid of it because it probably still has a ton of traffic that can display ads. It’s extremely obvious that they fucked up with the new design just because the old one has been around for so long

    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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      I literally only go to Reddit for videogame questions. I know most normal people only head there when they have specific questions.

      You know, the people they can actually show ads to?