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Reddit is announcing a huge shift: It\u2019s going to start requiring users to log in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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\u2019m not the only person who appends \u201creddit\u201d to a lot of Google searches to find answers to things written by actual humans instead of robots<\/a>. But that openness has made it a target for scraping and automated traffic, leading Reddit to file lawsuits over alleged unauthorized<\/a> access<\/a> of its data and make product changes like limiting access to \u201cOld Reddit.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There\u2019s no definitive timeline on when this change will roll out to all users, or how the site will work if you\u2019re logged out. (If I send my friend a link to a thread and they aren\u2019t logged in, what will they see?) To start, Reddit will test the logged-in requirement in \u201cselect markets outside the US\u201d in the \u201ccoming months,\u201d according to CEO Steve Huffman<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ll look at the impact on the user experience, on our business, and on the whole Reddit ecosystem, figure out where the right boundaries are, and go from there.\u201d Reddit has also rebuilt and is rereleasing the Reddit app\u2019s incognito mode.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Huffman claims the login requirement is better for Reddit\u2019s user experience and its ads business and is \u201cmore protective of Reddit data.\u201d The \u201cvast majority\u201d of unauthorized Reddit access happens \u201cthrough our logged-out experiences,\u201d though the company will still strike licensing deals of its data with companies, like the deals it made with OpenAI<\/a> and Google<\/a> in 2024. Huffman notes that Reddit does not need to know a logged-in user\u2019s identity \u2014 \u201cHonestly, we don\u2019t want to know\u201d \u2014 just that the user is logged in at all. And he says that more logged-in users lets the company deliver \u201cmore relevant ads.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is a big change for Reddit, where we\u2019ve allowed logged-out access to basically all of Reddit for the last two decades,\u201d Huffman says. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t know about you, but as someone whose life has been defined by the open internet, it\u2019s a big change for me. But I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that this is the right decision for our platform and the right decision for our business.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Reddit is making this announcement alongside its Q3 2026 earnings, which were released today<\/a>. Search traffic was \u201cdown meaningfully\u201d in Q3, Huffman says in the company\u2019s shareholder letter<\/a>, with logged-out traffic and web traffic being the most heavily impacted. \u201cDuring October, we have seen that search traffic has dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week,\u201d Huffman says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, Huffman notes that app and logged-in daily active unique users make up \u201cover 80% of the monetization on Reddit,\u201d which he says \u201cspeaks to the strength of Reddit as a destination and the impact of our ongoing product work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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