Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.

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      Also the “actual fucking content” is a mindless repost bot, with a bunch of reposted comments trying to build fake internet points so when the accounts switch to being spam advertising bots they last a little longer.

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        yeah, was gonna say that’s a user issue but it’s in the biggest scabreddit so that’s kind of on the admins too

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      My guess is someone who really, really, really wants you to see the advertisements. With a little bit of content on the side.

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        just reminds me to Nolan Sorrento from ready player one

        This is the first of our planned upgrades. Once we can roll back some of Halliday’s ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual’s visual field before inducing seizures

        idk which one is more sad, that reddit is actually doing this or that i had to specify “ready player one” when looking up the exact quote because otherwise it referred me to completely serious marketing articles

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            Or for really old-school nerds, Max Headroom. There were the Zik Zak “Blipvert” ads that were hyper-accelerated until they literally made people’s heads explode (like in Scanners).