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As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2026
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In other words: Now that he’s no longer getting any money from Google, he’s suddenly upset that no one is visiting his site anymore, because most of his former visitors now find the answers to their questions directly on Google—the very company to which he sold all of his website’s content.
Well, he could have figured that out sooner. What a moron—but hey, he’s already pocketed the money for all the content he stole from his own users.
It’s a good thing Aaron Swartz doesn’t have to witness all this, especially since the greediest of all corporations are now raking in money with complete impunity for the very thing he was supposed to go to prison for years—even though he had no intention of enriching himself at all.
Tbf maybe people aren't visiting reddit as much because they can't open or view anything from the search engine without an account? And if you make an account you're gonna get randomly banned sitewide a week later for existing wrong?
Is this currently being rolled out? I just tried with a generic search and "reddit" and it let me pull up a few threads.
Yeah, a number of people have been saying they can still get on but Reddit is definitely doing this. It appears to be getting rolled out in some kind of A/B distribution.
Gotcha. I sort of figured so, but didn't know exactly how old the news was.
My phone can only open a reddit thread for less than a minute before it locks up and asks for an account.
Oh, lol, I didn't linger long. I was just curious. Maybe what happens to me too.
rip aaron swartz
I came here to sell exactly that thing. Sell your stuff to your competitor on the cheap and then wonder why nobody buys from you anymore.