Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20 million-a-year bill for Apollo

Apollo developer says pricing isn't "remotely reasonable."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/reddits-api-pricing-results-in-shocking-20-million-a-year-bill-for-apollo/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

It's only going to get weirder: we've started seeing AI-written spam replies on, of all things, the Playdate Developer Forum?!?!

Tucked into their reply was a random link to another website, so the goal is SEO, as always.

But you gotta love the helpful suggestion to use Core Motion or SensorManager on your Playdate

1990s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for

2020s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway