Upcoming Reddit blackout and the future of third-party applications https://perma.cc/X8LH-ZQBV Stevie Chancellor, Ph.D.: “Reddit's decision to charge a hefty fee for API access is harmful to creative use of its API and data. To be clear, there are companies who take advantage of Reddit's dataset and work to benefit only themselves — think of large-scale AI models that use scraped data from all over the internet to make for-profit models. That said, there are a great number of justified parties who should have free and easy API access — researchers and students, people who make tools that make moderators' jobs easier, and any Redditor who uses a third-party app that provides a more accessible browsing experience. ...." Obviously in such case Apollo would not be included, since is a profit oriented brand. But there are many other that don't do that with profit in mind.