Reddit will force everyone to log in
timpera
23 points
5 comments
October 29, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
ChrisArchitect
Source: https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/comments/1xiupm0/about_that...
allexsendev
So atp Discord is opening their public servers, enabling Google to show results from there, and reddit is closing theirs? :D
timpera
It's a very bold strategy, Google could easily decide to stop promoting Reddit results so aggressively. However, I don't see this working against scrapers- it feels like scraping Reddit through unauthorized commercial APIs has only gotten cheaper since they introduced the first restrictions.