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This... is dumb. Reddit gets traffic from people using it as a secondary search engine to get relevant answers.
Most people on the Internet view it from mobile. Reddit already makes their mobile experience genuinely awful despite this. Blocking it entirely?
The herding to their mobile app is so transparent (and DEFINITELY through stick, not carrot) I'm morbidly curious to see what horrible things they planning to put in their app that they know users will loathe, that requires their alternatives to be zero.
This will cause search engines to deprioritize reddit threads in search results due to the 'bounce factor'.
If it's blocked for logged in users, why would that effect search engines?
Lots of users use search engines to find topics or solutions on reddit. Since the inbuilt search function of reddit is so bad, it's easier that way.
Reddit is one of the best places to find tech support for more niche topics like open RGB, but you have to fund them somehow.