Hi, again.
Reddit is now limiting the experience on browsers, this is recent (May 2026). I'm an active user there and just noticed. How this affects you, depends on your habits, like reading while not logged in, Windows Vs mobile, etc.
Anyway, Ars Technica just posted about it, her's the link in case you want to read the article, mods I guess this is ok with the rules, right? I'll remove it if it's not.
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Ars tried to contact Reddit to get an answer or explanation, and they got something from some spokesperson, you can read that yourself if you want to (on the article).
However, they say nothing about AI, bots, or scrappers, but if you have been around like me, you may remember some old news when Reddit sued some companies for scrapping their content to offer AI "answers", or to get content to feed other forums, articles, and things like that.
To me, at least this time... moving back to APPs makes a lot of sense, because while not perfect, it's easier to deal there with bots, scrappers, or AI agents, you may already know this is quite easy to do when browser access if fully available. Yeah, advertising surely plays a role there but I don't pretend to repeat what the article says, just bring to discussion how BOTS, AI and etc., surely are hitting the websites and server infrastructure.
Don't believe me? ha!
then you have to go and check
Digg. Yes, that... website.
In case you don't know, or their home page is modified by the time you visit their website from now own, they did a major redesign and launched it... I think this 2026, but they learned a hard lesson after getting hit and abused by a constant cloud of BOTS, scrappers and AI agents, I could paste here the text for you to read it, but it's too long, you can read it yourself there if you are lucky (because eventually they will launch a website again, that text won't be there forever).
I may not be Reddit or Digg, but sure, like you... I'm getting hit with bots, scrappers and AI garbage.
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