Is he the one who gave final approval of the anonymous login-wall, which pops up after 2 screens of scrolling in Twitter?

If so, good riddance, as that is an incredibly hostile user pattern.

BTW, maybe it's purely coincidence, but after refreshing my browser cache it seems to have gone away today.

Nothing could be worse than the crap reddit has been doing for the last year or so to force users (or from their perspective, useds, as rms likes to say) to download its app or login. First they outright blocked viewing posts unless logged in, then they disabled that, and now brought it back so that random posts are blocked from viewing with a message "This hasn't been reviewed" whatever that means.

Someone at reddit said, hey we can't be honest with users that we're trying to force them to use our app, we need to lie to them while we're doing it!

If you want just to browse reddit then you can do that through teddit or libreddit front-end instances. And with extensions like Privacy Redirect [1] you can do it automatically.

There are also front-ends for twitter and instagram but these seem to be most faulty - sometimes it takes a while to reach a stable instance and extension tends to overwrite manually selected instances.

Edit: seems there's already a fork of mentioned extension but it's available for manual installation [2]

[1] - https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

[2] - https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect