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>>robbie+(OP)
Reddit has posted their own announcements now

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_upda... and

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/13wshdp/api_update...

>>robbie+T6
> Finally, to ensure that all regulatory requirements are met in the handling of mature content, we will be limiting access to sexually explicit content for third-party apps starting on July 5, 2023, except for moderation needs.

Reddit really buried "no nsfw outside official reddit apps" (from the end of your first link). Didn't Tumblr do something similar and lose a significant fraction of its userbase and revenues?

>>ccooff+7a
I can only assume Reddit wants to kill NSFW altogether. They require you to authenticate now if you want to see any of it (though of course they promise that somehow this will still be "anonymous"). Once they turn off old.reddit.com, I think that'll be the end of NSFW content on Reddit altogether.

I assume they hope to attract more advertising money this way.

>>rootus+Pb
They no longer require you to authenticate to see NSFW content. There's a big "I'm over 18" button below the login button.

There was a few months where it was required, but it isn't anymore.

>>Randal+8g
They subject all of their dark patterns to multivariate testing. I suspect this is to elicit feedback like yours, and suppress the ability to respond to it, as they have never in years promoted any of it to general availability.

I’ve been in tests where the entire site is gated, demanding I download the app. I’ve been in tests where SFW content is marked as NSFW, demanding I log in. Etc.

>>leland+Aq
Why do these companies think they can "test" users anyway? Do we look like guinea pigs to them?

>>matheu+pf1
They don’t view you as a user... most companies who are ad supported fundamentally view everything as an impression/page load which is simply a container for ad placements. Click through, conversion rates and revenue per thousand impressions are the only metrics that matter to the health of the business.

Everything else is secondary and most product managers don't view a/b tests as anything other than experiments on ways to increase those stats.