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Reddit's mandatory login policy threatens to block anonymous access, undermining its utility as a free, crowdsourced information source for general users.
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Reddit will force everyone to log in
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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, and the site is generally a great resource for crowdsourced information on a whole range of topics. I know I'm not the only person who appends "reddit" to a lot of Google searches to find answers to things written by actual humans instead of robots. But that openness has made it a target for scraping and automated traffic, leading Reddit to file lawsuits over alleged unauthorized access of its data and make product changes like limiting access to "Old Reddit." There's no definitive timeline on when t … Read the full story at The Verge.
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