Reddit — Policy Change
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Reddit announced it would charge $0.24 per 1,000 API calls, effectively shutting down popular third-party apps like Apollo, Reddit is Fun, and Sync. Apollo's developer estimated annual costs of $20 million. Over 8,500 subreddits went private in June 2023 in one of the largest community protests in platform history. Critics argued the real motive was controlling data access ahead of Reddit's IPO and AI licensing deals.
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