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}}[[wikipedia:Reddit|'''Reddit''']] is an American social network for social-news aggregation, content rating, and forums. As of December 2024, Reddit is the eighth most-visited website in the world. It was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, as well as Aaron Swartz, in 2005.

==~~Controversies~~==

==Incidents==

===Going Closed Source===

In September 2017, Reddit reverted on their open source policy and archived their public repositories, citing difficulty to stealth launch features and desire to move away from a monorepo architecture. Users responded by noting neither of these reasons require being closed source, and that Reddit had been slowly being less transparent over time<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update_on_the_state_of_the_redditreddit_and/</ref>.

===Data Breach===

In August 2018, Reddit suffered a data breach due to employees using SMS 2FA. Leaked data included old hashed passwords and private messages from before 2007<ref>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/reddit-breach-highlights-limits-of-sms-based-authentication/</ref>.

===Erasing Aaron Swartz===

In October 2020, Reddit removed the late [[wikipedia:Aaron_Swartz|'''Aaron Swartz''']] from the About page<ref>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419</ref>. Aaron Swartz was a political activist supporting open access to knowledge resources who died by suicide in 2013 to avoid prosecution for leaking MIT's archive of research articles.

===API paywall===

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Users expressed concerns that this wasn't due to AI but due to greed and an attempt to monopolize information as Reddit is often cited as many people's go to resource for almost any topic. This sentiment resulted in one of the largest internet protests known as the Reddit Blackout. The Reddit Blackout was an event in which subreddits would be closed, marked as NSFW to prevent advertisements, or flooded with posts shaming Reddit's CEO. Users would also delete their posts, accounts, or edit them to shame the CEO in an attempt to reduce the value of the information. <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy "2023 Reddit API controversy"] - Wikipedia </ref>

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===VPN Blockage===

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In December 2023, Reddit started blocking users from accessing the site while on a VPN, unless they logged in.<ref>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38666028</ref>

~~!Controversy~~

~~!Year~~

===Ads That Look Like User Posts===

~~!Background Info~~

In March, 2024, Reddit rolled out a feature that made ads look like they came from real users (and by extent, were "upvoted" by real users). Reddit boasted these ads had 28% higher click-through rate than regular ads <ref>https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/14/reddit-introduces-a-new-ad-format-that-looks-similar-to-posts-made-by-users/</ref>

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 }}[[wikipedia:Reddit|'''Reddit''']] is an American social network for social-news aggregation, content rating, and forums. As of December 2024, Reddit is the eighth most-visited website in the world. It was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, as well as Aaron Swartz, in 2005.
-==Controversies==
+==Incidents==
+===Going Closed Source===
+In September 2017, Reddit reverted on their open source policy and archived their public repositories, citing difficulty to stealth launch features and desire to move away from a monorepo architecture. Users responded by noting neither of these reasons require being closed source, and that Reddit had been slowly being less transparent over time<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update_on_the_state_of_the_redditreddit_and/</ref>.
+===Data Breach===
+In August 2018, Reddit suffered a data breach due to employees using SMS 2FA. Leaked data included old hashed passwords and private messages from before 2007<ref>https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/reddit-breach-highlights-limits-of-sms-based-authentication/</ref>.
+===Erasing Aaron Swartz===
+In October 2020, Reddit removed the late [[wikipedia:Aaron_Swartz|'''Aaron Swartz''']] from the About page<ref>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419</ref>. Aaron Swartz was a political activist supporting open access to knowledge resources who died by suicide in 2013 to avoid prosecution for leaking MIT's archive of research articles.
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 Users expressed concerns that this wasn't due to AI but due to greed and an attempt to monopolize information as Reddit is often cited as many people's go to resource for almost any topic. This sentiment resulted in one of the largest internet protests known as the Reddit Blackout. The Reddit Blackout was an event in which subreddits would be closed, marked as NSFW to prevent advertisements, or flooded with posts shaming Reddit's CEO. Users would also delete their posts, accounts, or edit them to shame the CEO in an attempt to reduce the value of the information. <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy "2023 Reddit API controversy"] - Wikipedia </ref> <!-- To be expanded with better citations -->
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+In December 2023, Reddit started blocking users from accessing the site while on a VPN, unless they logged in.<ref>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38666028</ref>
-!Controversy
-!Year
+===Ads That Look Like User Posts===
-!Background Info
+In March, 2024, Reddit rolled out a feature that made ads look like they came from real users (and by extent, were "upvoted" by real users). Reddit boasted these ads had 28% higher click-through rate than regular ads <ref>https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/14/reddit-introduces-a-new-ad-format-that-looks-similar-to-posts-made-by-users/</ref>
-!Aftermath
-!Related Article
+==See Also==
-!Related Video(s)
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