2026-10-29 21:52 UTC
Reddit will force everyone to log in... like the deals it made with OpenAI...
Reddit is announcing a huge shift: It’s going to start requiring users to log in.
Right now, you can browse Reddit without having an account…
Huffman claims the login requirement is better for Reddit’s user experience and its ads business and is “more protective of Reddit data.” The “vast majority” of unauthorized Reddit access happens “through our logged-out experiences,” though the company will still strike licensing deals of its data with companies, like the deals it made with OpenAI and Google in 2024.
Source [web-archived; 2026-10-29_20-16-09Z]
Related: www.theverge.com/tech/…/old-reddit-ai-scraping (…cut back access to ‘Old Reddit’ because of AI bots…)
Replies (3)
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@TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2026-10-30 00:16
So they are basically going to turn Reddit into discord and hide content from users coming from search? Or are they going to turn it into quora and only let you see a single post from search? I don’t see either of these options being good for reddits long term user acquisition, but maybe their strategy is to just milk their current data dry and then bounce
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@FinalRemix@lemmy.world 2026-10-29 23:44
Well there goes my ability to reference shit in class… gonna have to snapshot posts and stuff from various data subs now.
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@schwim@piefed.zip 2026-10-29 21:55
I would like to be the first to thank them for this move. It’s going to do wonderful things for the Fediverse.