I’m not sure if this is new, but when I clicked on the /r/pics protest post link from the frontpage here, I was redirected to this: https://old.reddit.com/premium

I’m not sure if this is well-known or not that they’re pushing it now, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it, especially on old.reddit.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    I had a premium account on there for many years, often through being awarded “gold” on posts and the rest of the time through just paying for premium because it was worth it to me to remove the ads (without having to use my ad-blocker) and have the other usability tweaks. I cancelled the recurring payment at the start of this API debacle, because I don’t need to be supporting a company which does that.

    I’m terribly curious how the money which would be brought in by a user maintaining a premium subscription measures up against the money they’d be making forcing the crappy malware official client on that user and showing them ads.