If that gets verified as true it will be exciting to see how many people don’t want to put their personal content on the platform.
Does anyone still go to those other websites that watermark their content like ifunny.com or some place dumb like that?
There were years there when any watermark from another site would get OP lynched in the comments, and now Admin over there is sufficiently out of touch they’re going to start doing it to their own content.
Bets are on that this is a stupid kneejerk test from Reddit, worried that post-migration community hubs are going to “profit from their content” the same way Reddit did to places like ifunny or 9gag during it’s entire growth arc.
They’re also trialing blocking access on mobile if you use a web browser. I swear, they are really trying to run off the old user base.
It can’t be long before they trial actively blocking ad blockers, and then ditching old.reddit.
People always talk about sites blocking ad-blockers, and I’m sure sites are trying to, but I’ve genuinely never been to a website where ublock origin failed to work. Like, even if there’s a big banner over the screen you can’t dismiss, just open the ublock zapper tool and block the banner
Ahh, so they’re the new 9gag?
I just downloaded (the deleted and left a 1 star review) the official app and downloaded an old image and a new image and a watermark didn’t appear. Neither on the website
They might be trying it on a select subset of users to see how it goes.
Definitely could believe that, just wanted to report my own findings too
Yeah, they’ve been rolling out the worst anti-features to small sets of trial users, that’s what’s happening with the users blocked from accessing the website on mobile
Congratulations, Huffman, for finding another way to keep content creators off your site.
It shows that they’re worried.
