Reddit Ends Anonymous Browsing

Reddit will require users to be logged in to view the site, abandoning two decades of anonymous, logged‑out public access. The company frames the move as protection against scraping, better ad targeting, and data control while testing the change in select non‑US markets and reintroducing an incognito app mode. — If other major platforms follow, the change would hasten a shift from an open, linkable web to account‑gated platforms that make public discourse contingent on persistent identities or platform accounts.