While I agree, I do like the idea of businesses transitioning back toward paid service models. The current internet's "free, but we'll abuse your brain and sell your data while you're here" model really is bad for humanity. Maybe if people start paying for services, then companies will have to do right by the users, and might start building tools again that serving people instead of using people. Maybe...

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if that's what was happening I'd be down. But reddit isn't transitioning to a more user-centric, private paid model.

I guess I'm just hoping apps like Apollo will pay Reddits fee and ask their users to pay. Sad to see Apollo just folded.