Follow-up reporting ties the policy to fighting scrapers
6 Oct 31 10:24 AM · 8d ago · 17 posts · 41 comments · 4 sources · development 6 of 6
Bleeping Computer and other outlets reported the login wall as a security-and-scraping measure, reiterating that unauthorized access overwhelmingly occurs through Reddit's logged-out experience.
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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"In its 3rd-qtr earnings call on Thursday, the company announced it’s transitioning to a primarily 'logged-in experience.' The move is designed to protect its data from AI scraping, allowing the company to instead forge lucrative licensing deals with model providers."
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r/all is the worst for business. They got rid of it to copy Facebook and IG, feed. IG has a page where you can scroll top posts but Facebook is just one post after another, many times in topics you arent interested in. Reddit has done the same thing. Provide a feed that the app constantly asks you to refresh by putting a red dot on the home icon…
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I, for one, can't wait for Redditors to finally abandon that dying walled garden and join us in open # Fediverse spaces like # Mastodon , # Lemmy , and # Bluesky . > "Transforming # Reddit into a “logged-in only experience” essentially undercuts its claims to being the “front page of the internet” and will seemingly lead to a massive drop in…
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Per this October 29 article, the plan was "Reddit will start testing the login requirement in “select,” non-US markets in Q4".
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Yep. And they got rid of the setting that allowed you to turn off "recommend me subreddits based on my interests" or whatever it was called. So they removed the ability to stop them from recommending you subreddits you weren't subbed to and then they defaulted you to the "for you" feed full of these types of recommendations. This is exactly why…
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Just so I’m clear: 1. Reddit signs deal with Google to let them scrape their data for AI 2. Google does just that. 3. People stop going to Reddit because Google gave them the info they were looking for. 4. Reddit: https:// kotaku.com/ai-is-forcing-reddi t-to-get-way-worse-2000751581 Brilliant, no notes. # reddit # google # ai
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Debido a la reducción de tráfico de búsquedas y usuarios activos, Reddit se enfocará en una experiencia centrada en usuarios que iniciaron sesión.
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We really need them to fuck it up so much that everyone just naturally migrates to Mastodon or Lenny. And that may actually one of the first thing people will have issues with. Not being able to share a website in this day and age is laughable, but now that search may not work anymore? New users accounts numbers will take a dive. I don't share as…
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RE: https:// mastodon.social/@campuscodi/11 7549159852365004 Reddit has been long dead to me but there will always be a Reddit or a Discord or a Foursquare or an AOL that folks will pump a lot of free labor into writing content for.
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Oh yeah, ive thought similarly. Ai has wrecked the trustworthiness of so many things online. Ive seen a new trend of gemini-animated "educational" shorts where someone can prompt gemini to create a convincing animation set atop an ai voice. They dont really look like traditional ai slop of the past, so much as actual (though rudimentary)…
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Reddit, $RDDT, is going to start requiring users to log in, with CEO Steve Huffman saying the platform is becoming a "logged-in-only experience." Read more: https:// t.co/UemKhnzA84 # news # finance # economics # stocks # options
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The insane part is that they could just implement the old reddit view within the new reddit platform and people could select it and not have the shit tier UI. Instead, they constantly try and do whatever they can to destroy old reddit. It's been more than a fucking decade but they can't get arid of it because the majority people they rely upon to…
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Reddit will soon ask you to log in before reading, to keep the scrapers out. https://www. bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu rity/reddit-to-lock-content-behind-logins-to-fight-scrapers/
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Moderation should be consistent with the subs mission statement. Onguardforthee is very up front about what it is. R Canada pretends to be a sub for all Canadians but skews hard to a very right wing and nativist viewpoint. If they were CanadianNazis nobody would bat an eye because that's consistent with how they moderate. Aldo I'm sorry but no…
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Reddit is losing it's shirt to AI and Google Zero-Click https:// arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/1 0/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-eventually-ceo-confirms
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And just anything trans related whatsoever. places like r/comics its gone past being anything even being critical, it's now if you don't have the right specific opinions like if you seem 'transmedicalist' or some such thing. And there's so many subs where it's just promotional for that thing, so you'll just get banned from some game subreddits for…
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RE: https:// mastodon.social/@campuscodi/11 7549159852365004 Fuck Reddit. Period. "Free speech" my hairy Black ass. Fucking racists.
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So what other social media will you use once Reddit forces login? I dont really have an alternative and there're still plenty of interesting posts and discussion happening on Reddit. Instagram in comparison is brain-rotten and full of AI. Every single reel has the same comment 500 times, just people trying to be funny.. no discussion what-so-ever…
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I went worm-holing to test it. It straight hallucinated, confidently, some extraordinarily easy-to-verify facts from the same source it was citing (me). It just took the original data and fun-house mirrored it. The truth about the nature if reality has always been a choose-your-own adventure...I don't think it's hyperbole....we are in serious…
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I'm banned from both r/news and r/worldnews for using the term "genocide" to refer to what Israel is doing in gaza, and when i asked them months later (using the word please twice and citing more and more news sources using the term) they reported me to redit admins for harassment and I received a permanent ban. Luckily they reversed it but…
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Yes! That’s what I am already starting to feel a bit in certain small spaces or communities. It feels like the old interner, where people got together because they couldnt find a similiar community elsewhere. Since the internet became mainstream, everything feels saturated even communities for niche things
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Reddit has become steadily worse over the years. It all started when they started pushing new Reddit, emphasising pictures and videos over articles. The quality of conversation is down. Clearly there's a lot of political filtering and censorship here to prevent much meaningful political conversation.
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honestly reddit has sucked since they killed off the back end third party apps used. ever since than for me atleast, i have really noticed a downward trend of reddit. it likes to show me the same front page. got forbid it adds something new in the mix. even top feels off since then
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There are A MANY Reddit mods who remove any posts criticizing Trump and Israel literally everything they don't agree with. Also, the auto mod is down right oppressive if you've been downvote brigaded and suffered negative karma in any sub as a result.
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