We'll see! According to https://reddark.untone.uk/ more than 60% of the protesting subs are still shutdown now, well past the end of the official 2 day protest, including quite a few big ones (funny, art, science, gaming, pics, sport, DIY, food). Even if half of Reddit comes back, it's hard to avoid the sensation that it's broken right now, and surely that'll hit the user & traffic numbers.
pimterry
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Do you have a reference for that? From all the documentation I've seen elsewhere, that's not true. There's no exclusion for waterproof devices, and everything has to be possible with tools a normal person can buy (you might need to go to a local hardware store, but no unique specialist expensive kit).
The full law is here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2020/0798/COM_COM(2020)0798_EN.pdf. It only mentions 'water' 3 times and none of them relate to waterproof phones (they're talking about batteries of waterbourne transport & environmental impact of water use) so I don't know where that's coming from.
It's totally possible to make waterproof phones with removable batteries - Samsung did it with the Galaxy S5 (IP67 - 1 meter under water for 30 minutes) way back in 2014 and there's lots of other examples. It's just not quite as cheap as glueing everything together.