- Apollo, a popular third-party app for accessing Reddit, announced it will shut down June 30.
- Reddit has started charging developers for access to its content.
- The creator of Apollo said the new pricing policy would cost his app $20 million a year.
Apollo, a popular app for accessing Reddit, will shut down on June 30, a casualty of the social media company’s decision to begin charging developers for access to its content.
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman attributed the decision to charge for access to the craze of generative AI sweeping the tech industry, saying that developers have been scraping Reddit’s website to train large language models.
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