Deluxeparrot

That’s basically it. They keep control. They can charge subscriptions. They own it. Not you.

That’s because it’s not public. We are just guessing.

Both devs haven’t said why they are immediately removing ads from their apps.

It’s just a guess that it’s a condition of reddit giving them free api access for a few months.

To me, Reddit’s policy seems to be driven as much by spite as anything else.

Yep I agree. No reason to force them to remove their own advertising.

My guess since both apps doing this model have immediately removed their own advertising is that they are exempt from the api pricing for a few months.

I can’t see either dev cutting off their revenue stream (app ads) and then eating the api cost on the same day. Especially if users swarm to them as they are the last standing 3rd party app on their platform. Individuals wouldn’t take on that kind of liability.