Reddit is going logged-in-only. Huffman’s reasons: ad targeting, protecting the “corpus,” regulations, and everyone else did it. Translation: protect the bottom line. User experience? Who cares. Best part? They sold the data to Google, Google stopped sending clicks, and now you get carded at the door
https://blog.ppb1701.com/log-in-to-continue
#reddit #bigtech #userhostile #privacy #ai #search #google #openai #ageverification #openweb #blog
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