Reddit users launched a 48-hour blackout. Thousands of popular Reddit communities dedicated to topics ranging from Apple Inc. to gaming and music locked out their users on Monday in protest against the company’s plan to charge for access to its data.
The action has been in the works for weeks after Reddit announced in April that it would start charging third parties for its application programming interface, a software framework that allows a data provider and an end-user to communicate with each other.
From July 1, Reddit plans to charge developers that require higher usage limits $0.24 for every 1,000 API calls or less than $1 per user every month.
