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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 96 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

They threaten to saw the branch they sit on.

Btw, greed and jealousy are cancers that eat the brain.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The moment they do this Reddit will collapse.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Very much doubt it but they will lose a lot of causal trade page hits. A lot of finding solutions to things is why I end up.on Reddit now as it only useful result in Google.

But the vast amount of people using it as social.media will stay

[–] agentshags 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm sure they are already getting less and less hits as people wipe or obfuscate their histories, and as their users migrate to cough other platforms and post OC there.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It won't just be this but it'll be things like this, further monetization schemes, and eventually killing old.reddit that are gonna keep chipping away at their faithful userbase.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm surprised they haven't killed old reddit after all this other BS yet, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That's because all the admins are using old.reddit themselves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

They can see the numbers for new shit reddit and old reddit. They haven't gotten rid of it because it probably still has a ton of traffic that can display ads. It's extremely obvious that they fucked up with the new design just because the old one has been around for so long

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I literally only go to Reddit for videogame questions. I know most normal people only head there when they have specific questions.

You know, the people they can actually show ads to?