Relay for Reddit app stays as one of the few remaining third party apps for Reddit and they are forced to go to a subscription model but the cost of such a subscription is related to how many API calls per user are done.
This screenshot was taken from the yet working patched Sync for Reddit app.
You are paying him with ad revenue
Yeah, I let AdAway rooted version and my PiHole handle that.
Sounds like a good system to get around the dark pattern
Dark pattern, care to elaborate?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern