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

  • RealNooshie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    66·
    1 year ago

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

    • b3nsn0w@pricefield.orgEnglish
      442·
      1 year ago

      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

        • Meldroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          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).