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.
Sounds like a good system to get around the dark pattern
Dark pattern, care to elaborate?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern