The self-proclaimed “front page of the internet,” Reddit has seen hundreds of the notoriously left-wing platform’s most popular subreddits go private in response to recent policy changes resulting in the shutdown of multiple third-party apps.
that leftist social media platform Reddit recently announced a new policy requiring third-party apps to pay for access to its application programming interface , which has caused a great deal of controversy. Developers and users have reacted negatively to this change, which is scheduled to go into effect on July 1. As a result, there is an ongoing blackout protest and the shutdown of several popular subreddits.
The policy change was defended by Reddit’s co-founder and CEO, Steve Huffman, who claimed it was essential for the business’s long-term financial viability. “Reddit needs to be a self-sustaining business, and to do that, we can no longer subsidize commercial entities that require large-scale data use,” Huffman explained in a post.
One of the unexpected outcomes of this subreddit blackout is the effect it has had on search engines like Google. In its current state, finding instructions or real content on Google has become extremely hard, leading many users to add “+Reddit” to the end of their search terms.
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