As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces shift to a logged-in experience

So instead of letting me browse their website from Google searches, they'd rather me just ask ChatGPT and have it regurgitate answers based on their content?

Yes, because they can charge OpenAI to permit their bots access.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/comments/1xiupm0/about_that...

other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295611