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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Shit, all they had to do was offer the api to paid subscribers to use any 3rd-party app the user wanted. They could also offer two apis one to developers - one thatโ€™s free with injected ads, and one thatโ€™s paid with no ads. Everybody wins, everybody gets โ€œa piece of the pie.โ€ But noooooo, they wanted it all-or-nothing.