Reddit Blackout protest explained: Why are subreddits going private?

What you need to know Reddit, a popular news aggregation and discussion site with over 50 million daily active users, is “going dark,” with most of its subreddit communities choosing to enter private mode. Users are doing this to protest upcoming Reddit API price increases that will make it impossible for third-party app and bot […]

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Apple Subreddit Goes Dark in Protest of Reddit’s API Pricing Changes

Apple-related subreddit /r/apple has gone dark in protest of Reddit’s upcoming API pricing changes affecting third-party Reddit apps. The subreddit is now private, meaning that users can no longer view or submit posts, and the moderators behind the community said it will remain that way for the next 48 hours, or potentially longer if necessary. […]

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Top Reddit communities going dark to protest third-party API charges

What you need to know Reddit’s recent rule change will increase the cost of accessing its API for third-party apps. Some developers have stated the costs of accessing Reddit’s API will cause their apps to be “dead in 30 days”. Massive communities, including r/videos, r/lifeprotips, and r/reactiongifs, plan to ‘go dark’ for at least 48 […]

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A veteran World of Warcraft lead has resigned in protest of this dumb Activision policy

What you need to know Activision-Blizzard is a megapublisher behind Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush.  A veteran Blizzard developer and key architect for World of Warcraft has resigned in protest of Activision’s stack-ranking practices, which sees developers assigned a low-ranking based on a quota system.  Microsoft used to use stack-ranking, but […]

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Huawei, once Samsung’s rival, may be deleting China protest videos

You may have probably heard about the recent protests in China. Foxconn employees took to the streets to protest the company for misleading claims on wage increases and other benefits that never came to pass. Most other protests in China are reportedly happening due to recent COVID lockdowns and restrictions. Amid all this, a report […]

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Protest Is Risky at Egypt’s COP27. That Won’t Stop Activists

But an altercation that followed the event exemplified the resistance human rights activists face: According to a Washington Post report, Egyptian lawmaker Amr Darwish stood up and yelled at Seif. “You are here summoning foreign countries to pressure Egypt.” He continued berating her until UN security escorted him out, the paper reported. Activist organizations in […]

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Apple Employees Protest Hybrid In-Person Work Plan

Amid the process of Apple employees returning to in-person work using a hybrid schedule, a group of employees represented by “Apple Together” are protesting the company’s current hybrid working policy. Last month, corporate Apple employees in the United States began returning to their offices, ending a two-year work from home policy that Apple implemented during […]

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