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Infinity for Reddit plans to go subscription-only July 1st in hopes of sustainability, price undecided for now (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Infinity, a lesser known open-source third-party Reddit app for Android, has announced that it will be switching to a subscription-only model. This would mean that the F-Droid version of the app will be delisted and the API key currently in the source code of the app will be removed. As of this post, the developer is currently not interested in converting Infinity into a Lemmy client, but encourages others to look into doing it themselves because of the app's open source nature.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds quite unbelievable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a common approach if API access is paid. Not doing this is equivalent to lighting your money on fire because someone WILL extract your API key and start scraping.

[–] newIdentity 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also quite common to have the key directly in the app like that's the case with twitch (I mean the desktop app) and Crunchyroll

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but those are first party apps. Entirely different scenario.

[–] newIdentity 1 points 1 year ago

Not really. You can extract the key and use it in your application