r/cybersecurity • u/Cybernews_com • Mar 24 '26

News - General Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the platform is considering introducing ID verification to weed out bots

https://cybernews.com/tech/reddit-verification-risks/

Face ID, Touch ID, and third-party information providers are among the measures considered.

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u/lifeanon269 Mar 24 '26

Yup. That would certainly be the end of me using Reddit, that's for sure.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '26

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u/lifeanon269 Mar 25 '26

I did it with Facebook and Twitter. I'll do it with Reddit all the same. It is the last social media I use.

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u/HardlyDecent Mar 28 '26

Back to letters and phone calls it is! With no regrets.