Despite widespread protest, Reddit CEO says company is 'not negotiating' on 3rd-party app charges

More than 8,000 subreddits, or Reddit communities, have gone dark as of Tuesday, June 13, in protest of upcoming API changes, which include a controversial policy that will charge some third-party apps for continued use. — AP Photo/Matt Slocum

WASHINGTON: If you hopped on Reddit to scroll through your favorite forums this week, you may have encountered "private” or "restricted” messages. That’s because thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company's plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access the site's data.

But Reddit's CEO Steve Huffman told The Associated Press he's not backing off.