Run predominantly by teams of volunteer moderators, approximately 8,000 subreddits big and small coordinated to change their boards to a private state and decline all requests for user access for 48 hours, including r/funny, r/aww, r/gaming, r/Music, r/Pics, r/science, r/todayilearned. As several third party developers including Apollo announced plans to shutdown, Redditors began to coordinate a protest in response. Soon after, several companies and developers of third party apps began to speak out against this change, including the developer of Apollo, who reported that their ~1.5 million users would cost approximately $20 million a year - a completely untenable figure. This past April, Reddit announced plans to charge for access to its API in order to combat companies using it to train AI programs, citing them as extremely profitable big companies benefitting from Reddit's API for free. After participating in a 48-hour blackout protest against Reddit's decision to charge third-party developers for API access, moderators of the World of Warcraft subreddit have announced that the subreddit will be indefinitely returning to private mode in continued protest.
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