I am not sure what interface(s) or the conditions are, but apparently every post now has a reddit watermark. Presumably for people trying to repost their work to other sites.
Obligatory “fuck Steve Huffman.”
I know that for a while now saving stuff off the official app has had a banner on it. This is a logical extension.
Dunno if it’s true, and not crossing the picket line to find out.
I just tried it with the official app. It does have a banner by default if you download an image. The banner says what sub it’s from on the left, and it says “Reddit” and has the logo on the right. You can turn the banner off in the settings. But the banner also doesn’t cover up any part of the image itself, so you could also crop it out.
I actually don’t hate this implementation. Having a Reddit logo cover the content would be dumb, but this post could also be rage bait, since I haven’t seen this happen personally.
Edit: I want to clarify that the first time I downloaded an image it told me there was going to be a banner, and that I could turn it off in the settings.
Ahh, so they’re the new 9gag?
It shows that they’re worried.
To quote one of the great orators of our time, Nathan Diaz - " I’m not surprised "
If that gets verified as true it will be exciting to see how many people don’t want to put their personal content on the platform.
Does anyone still go to those other websites that watermark their content like ifunny.com or some place dumb like that?
There were years there when any watermark from another site would get OP lynched in the comments, and now Admin over there is sufficiently out of touch they’re going to start doing it to their own content.
Bets are on that this is a stupid kneejerk test from Reddit, worried that post-migration community hubs are going to “profit from their content” the same way Reddit did to places like ifunny or 9gag during it’s entire growth arc.
They’re also trialing blocking access on mobile if you use a web browser. I swear, they are really trying to run off the old user base.
It can’t be long before they trial actively blocking ad blockers, and then ditching old.reddit.
So what will be left of Reddit? What’s the point of trying to turn it into 9gag? They can’t be that removed from reality.
People always talk about sites blocking ad-blockers, and I’m sure sites are trying to, but I’ve genuinely never been to a website where ublock origin failed to work. Like, even if there’s a big banner over the screen you can’t dismiss, just open the ublock zapper tool and block the banner
