Reddit will force everyone to log in

<figure> <img alt="An illustration of the Reddit logo." data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/STK115_Reddit_04.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Reddit is announcing a huge shift: It's going to start requiring users to log in.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Right now, you can browse Reddit without having an account, and the site is generally a great resource for crowdsourced information on a whole range of topics. I know I'm not the only person who appends "reddit" to a lot of Google searches to find answers to things written by actual humans <a href="https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai">instead of robots</a>. But that openness has made it a target for scraping and automated traffic, leading Reddit to file lawsuits over alleged <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/804660/reddit-suing-perplexity-data-scrapers-ai-lawsuit">unauthorized</a> <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/679768/reddit-sues-anthropic-alleging-its-bots-accessed-reddit-more-than-100000-times-since-last-july">access</a> of its data and make product changes like <a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1002788/old-reddit-ai-scraping">limiting access to "Old Reddit."</a></p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">There's no definitive timeline on when t …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1022571/reddit-login-requirement-q3-2026-earnings">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>