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The Cost of Reddit's Blackout: CEO's Interview and Google's Barren Search Results

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Source: The Verge
The Cost of Reddit's Blackout: CEO's Interview and Google's Barren Search Results
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman defended the platform's decision to shut down some of the most popular third-party Reddit apps due to API pricing changes, arguing that it is a business decision to force AI companies training on Reddit’s data to pay up. Huffman said that the changes are wiping out some beloved Reddit apps, but thousands of subreddits have gone dark for days in protest. Huffman also said that Reddit is willing to work with the apps that are willing to work with them, and that the two biggest apps, Apollo and RIF, threw in the towel.

Topics:businesstechnology#api#business-decision#reddit#steve-huffman#technology#third-party-apps
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  1. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn't backing down: our full interview  The Verge
  2. Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts  MacRumors
  3. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on blackout: It's expensive to run a company  NPR
  4. Opinion | Reddit's strike shows the high cost of its free content  The Washington Post
  5. The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes  TechRadar

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