48-hour Reddit user blackout kicks off, affecting 8K subreddits

As of Monday, nearly 8,000 subreddit forums are going dark for 48 hours in protest of Reddit’s new pricing policy. The new policy implements a paid model for Reddit’s third-party apps that allow monthly users to customize their Reddit experience — for example, by personalizing their display theme or changing how they upvote a post — and ensure that their data is not collected and shared. Also known as an application programming interface (API), third parties like Apollo display the discussion site’s content and enhance the user experience. However, as...