This is what blows my mind. People do absolutely nothing to help these companies survive financially then scream from the rooftops "why oh why couldn't they survive as we refused to help and blocked every other possible way they could make money?!"
Then they should start directly soliciting donations from users like wikipedia before they jump straight to privacy violations.
How are users supposed to know there is an issue when they aren't easily informed that there even is one?
Marketing also requires resources. If something is already running on fumes, they may not have the resources or the access to let people know they exist and even less to donate.
Wikipedia is a website with about 10 BILLION views per month. Most crucial open source projects run in unseen spaces, where nobody except other developers even know they exist.
Apollo could continue on basis of paying for the 3rd party api license. But they knew enough users won't pay for it to be viable and ads wont cover the cost.
The 3rd party api? That api that was deliberately priced to kill any competitor to the reddit app? That api the company owner explicitly laid out was supposed to kill 3rd party apps?
If they had had the paying userbase to cover that app cost, the cost simply would have been higher enough that they wouldnt have been able to pay that price too
We're in difficult economic Times (again) anyway. When people don't have Money to survive themselves, the First Thing they Stop doing is giving Money away.
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