What makes an app 3rd party and why is them potentially getting disabled a big deal?
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A third party app is one that isn’t developed by the same company as the service. For example, Reddit has an official (first party) mobile app, but there are other apps developed and maintained by other companies or individual developers. These are third party, because they aren’t part of Reddit. They use the publicly available APIs to access the content on Reddit but decide how the UI looks and behaves
The problem with shutting out third party apps, is that it limits choice. In the example above, only Reddit can decide how you get to use the service. If they want to get rid of features like “sort by new” or make the homepage always include posts from /r/bronycringe they can do that and the users have no choice but to put up with it or leave
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