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Open browsing is letting anyone read what the site has.
My suspicion on why, is because AI bots and crawlers can just read the contents of the posts and send it back to whoever prompted, thus “stealing” clicks that would otherwise go into reddit proper and generate ad money
Same reason why every other social media site has done it, they want to to create an account and sell your data.
It almost certainly about blocking AIs from scraping the site without paying.
But what stops then from making an account for the AI to login under? You mean to tell me those “are you human?” pages actually work?
They can then see how fast that account is injesting pages.
If it’s inhumanly fast they can stop it.
