Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards::Reddit, which is still dealing with the fallout from its last controversial decision, said it plans to phase out coins and awards.
Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards::Reddit, which is still dealing with the fallout from its last controversial decision, said it plans to phase out coins and awards.
They want to force redditors to see ads. That’s the whole point. Gilding someone was a way of gifting an ad-free experience to a random redditor, and Reddit doesn’t like that anymore.
Of course it’s also because spez doesn’t like seeing too many awards on “fuck spez” comments.
the lengths people will go before installing adblocker
most Reddit users use the official app now, so an adblocker is pretty much useless there
(+ the vast majority don’t know how to use an adblocking proxy on their phone)