r/Privacy Will Be Observing The Reddit Blackout, June 12th & 13th, And Will Have Limited Access June 14th–19th

Hi, Everyone –

As we’ve all heard, Admin is making a rash, rushed and poorly-thought out change to how independent third-party developers – who have helped make Reddit what it is – can access Reddit APIs. These developers were given highly unrealistic timeframes to radically change how they access these APIs, or die. “Or die,” being the operative phrase.

It’s provoked [something of a response](https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplete_and_growing_list_of_participating/). We won’t rehash what everyone reading is already familiar with. [r/AskHistorians has an announcement worth …

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