According to someone on a discord server I am in, Reddit has started adding watermarks to every post?

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.
- Or the opposite, cropping out someone's watermark or signature to pass something as original, even putting a new watermark over the old one. Can't wait to see redditors still holding out saying it's not a big deal and then find Reddit itself is doing the same thing.
I have a friend that sends me iFunny pictures every day. I hate it.
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If that gets verified as true

Congratulations, Huffman, for finding another way to keep content creators off your site.

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 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

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.

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...

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.

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 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.
- Fuck u/spez. That's the new slogan for Reddit now.
- That seems to be an option you can opt out of

That can't possibly be true

To quote one of the great orators of our time, Nathan Diaz - " I'm not surprised "