Reddit Communities ‘Go Dark’ to Protest Company’s New Developer Fees

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Redditors are livid after the site recently announced that it will be charging thousands of dollars for access to its application programming interface.

, and that he would be pulling the plug on Apollo as a result.

“Reddit needs to be a self-sustaining business, and to do that, we can no longer subsidize commercial entities that require large-scale data use,” said Reddit CEO Steve Huffman in a post Friday. Reddit is set to start charging for API access on July 1.

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