How does this have so many upvotes in a science-based community? Behind everything that destroys the ecosystem it is big faceless corporations, not individual people wanting to make profit. This is like accusing your local pharmacy employee of hiking cost of medicines.

Yep, that was the big wave. Even though my third party app kept working with a custom API key for a long time, I made the full switch after a year or so. Not that I used reddit much during that time. Since then only stumble upon reddit in web searches.