Users and commentators call the change the end of open Reddit
4 Oct 30 10:26 AM · 9d ago · 4 articles · 13 posts · 7 comments · 5 sources · development 4 of 6
Social posts and comments reacted negatively, describing the shift as 'enshittification' and a loss of the open web, with some predicting it will hurt rather than help Reddit's reach.
“i think reddit is finally dead”
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Steve Huffman Reddit CEOReddit Inc. Company behind the platformGoogle Search engine whose AI Overviews are blamed for traffic lossOpenAI AI company with a Reddit data licensing deal
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first by Business Insider, 9d ago
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i think reddit is finally dead https://www. theverge.com/tech/1022571/redd it-login-requirement-q3-2026-earnings
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techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/a... Preventing ai scraping. These are the worst of times for sm.
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Its always a double edged sword with Reddit. I tend to agree that all the AI scraping from outside is problematic, but if you force a log in you will heavily cut into the exposure to actual human users that want to learn about real user experiences. So im not sure if any of the plans will help the revenue. As someone who is mainly active on YT and…
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No solamente han metido un feed "For you" (es decir: con mierda que no te importa), sino que ahora van a empezar a bloquear el acceso a usuarios no logueados. Es una pena que alternativas a Reddit no terminen de despegar. Yo tengo una cuenta en un servidor de Lemmy (lemmy.ca, para hacer alarde de canadiensidad), y las mejores comunidades ahí están…
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Tämän jälkeen hakukoneita ei juurikaan enää tarvitse. Reddit Internetin ainoita paikkoja, joista löytynyt hakukoneen kautta mielenkiintoista keskustelu/kokemustietoa.
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I've been banned from subreddits I've never gone into for simply replying to a post that popped up on /r/popular that was in some subreddit the said banning subreddit was opposed to. Like they have auto ban hammers set up. It's weird.
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# Reddit # merdification Voilà voilà... vous ne pourrez même LIRE une page de Reddit sans être connecté avec votre compte. Merdification liée à l'IA, puisque Reddit veut à tout prix que le contenu produit par ses fermes d'utilisateurs profite à son partenaire, Google, et pas aux boîtes concurrentes. Cette merdification vous est offerte par les…
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Reddit is removing the APIs. What what is gonna happen next? People write scraper with login and they have much more traffic compared to before.
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Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience”. Sadly, a logical consequence of increasing LLM scraping. The CEO also argues that that “will ensure our users have the best Reddit experience possible”. 😬 So far, it’s mostly web searches that lead me to Reddit. I wonder what that traffic going away will do to them. https://…
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What a fucking shitty website. It was the good alternative to Digg and they've managed to make it worse than that ever was over the years.
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Reddit is reportedly moving to restrict or eliminate the ability to browse its content without an active user account. - https://www. notebookcheck.net/Reddit-is-ab out-to-change-fundamentally.1438073.0.html
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I'm writing this from Redreader https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader That's the third party app that got the only exception.
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Reddit plans to restrict browsing without an account https://www. androidauthority.com/reddit-lo gged-out-browsing-restrictions-3729803/
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Old Reddit is already like that. If you're not logged in, old Reddit doesn't work at all
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More enshittification comes to Reddit https://www. theverge.com/tech/1022571/redd it-login-requirement-q3-2026-earnings
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You mean you don't want to create an instagram account to view more than 6 pictures?
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