Congratulations, Huffman, for finding another way to keep content creators off your site.
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Ahh, so they’re the new 9gag?
That’s been true from the mobile app for a while. Whenever I save a photo from the reddit app it comes with a watermark that says what sub it’s from.
I haven’t used the official app in a while but you used to be able to turn that off
Can confirm
I noticed it months (?) ago. When I would do Share -> Copy Image in iOS official reddit app, it would add the attribution/watermark
I just downloaded (the deleted and left a 1 star review) the official app and downloaded an old image and a new image and a watermark didn’t appear. Neither on the website
They might be trying it on a select subset of users to see how it goes.
Definitely could believe that, just wanted to report my own findings too
Yeah, they’ve been rolling out the worst anti-features to small sets of trial users, that’s what’s happening with the users blocked from accessing the website on mobile
It shows that they’re worried.
Glad I downloaded all content from /m/RimWorldPorn just before the darkness then!
It’s not super new, they’ve been doing that for a while. It’s pretty difficult to get a direct source to the image even if you dig into your browser’s developer tools.
They started doing this a while ago but it was a tab at the bottom of the screen, similar to an iFunny watermark, and it could be toggled off. I think it was an official app thing?
This new watermark seems much more intrusive.
Yeah it was just a “from r/whateversub” along the bottom. Easily cropped out as well.
That’s wild if true. If I took a picture, created art work, made a meme why would I want reddit taking credit for it. Not to mention a ton of content on reddit is just screenshots from twitter, tumblr, 4chan, etc. How do you get off slapping a watermark on content that originated on another platform. It’s like all these websites that host user generated content eventually forget they are just a host for the content. They start thinking they are the content.
I just checked reddit and it doesn’t seem to have watermarks. I know for a while on mobile they added like the source/attribution of the subreddit at the bottom (but you could disable it). If they force watermarks on everything that’ll just make me use the platform even less…
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.
Fuck u/spez. That’s the new slogan for Reddit now.
To be fair that’s been the reddit slogan for like a decade at this point
That seems to be an option you can opt out of
That can’t possibly be true
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