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> What guarantee is there that those inline ads would be rendered by the 3rd party client?

Because if it isn't then reddit can simply revoke their access.

How can reddit know if the ads are being stripped out or not? Simple - download the app, run it and see.

The API license can always force things like:

1. Only for apps, whether mobile, desktop or web (i.e. forget about training your LLM on the data) 2. License revoked if content is modified in any way (i.e. no stripping out ads)

It's not that difficult, honestly. I've signed more strict agreements with companies (NDAs, and so forth) to access their system, their data, etc.



> Because if it isn't then reddit can simply revoke their access.

And then we are right back at the complaints that reddit is killing 3P clients.




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