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Reddit plans to restrict content to logged-in users to deter scrapers

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co-founder Steve Huffman announced that the site will gradually move to a logged-in model, with limited access for visitors without accounts. The stated aim is to reduce large-scale scraping of user content by bots and data collectors.

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