Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

  • Magnolia_@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Pay for what now, it’s full of bots. And disingenuous people. At that the self moderation people put themselves through to interact in that website

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I think idiots actually prefix searches with “reddit” like “reddit best toaster”.

      They don’t realise that it’s all bot content like the rest of the Web.

      That doesn’t matter though. If bing doesn’t have those results it will drive users away.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    then don’t block it \0/ they’ll get in anyway and all they are doing is harming their user base with all the restrictions. I unblocked reddit for the hell of it the other day and it looks like I don’t need to block it anymore, they think my home network is a VPN so they did me a favor and did the footwork for me.

    • PlexSheep@infosec.pubEnglish
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      2 months ago

      We can be so glad we left. That placees quality has dropped so much.

      Reddit is for porn and perhaps age old posts now.

      • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Reddit is not even good for porn anymore. Since they banned it from r/all. You gotta find it yourself now.

      • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I don’t know if it’s real or just nostalgia, but reddit is massively worse than I remember. I’ve gone back to nose a few times, and it feels like a ghost town, compared to what it used to be.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        reddit is for right wing conservative astroturfing and misinformation, judging from the last time i looked at its front page.

    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      U/spez the former moderator of r/jailbait? Who might have connections to Ghilisaine Maxwell? Him?

      Oh and PS - posting OC porn on Reddit is a very weird process and not transparent

  • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    On one hand, that’s a shitty, greedy move from Reddit. All of the data, and value is provided by the users.

    On the other hand, Microsoft does want to feed it into OpenAI and present it on a Bing search engine result page rather than sending the visitor to Reddit where they might join a community (or view an ad or ten).

    • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The article says OpenAI made a deal with Reddit, so blocking Microsoft isn’t going to keep Reddit’s data from getting fed to OpenAI

  • mightyfoolish@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I stopped appending reddit to my search terms. I won’t go back to Google search; especially after the GamersNexus video featuring Wendell from Level1 Techs.

  • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If this gains any traction, I hope every news site, blog, etc sues Reddit for profiting off their material that fills the entire site. The comment section wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t something to comment on in the first place. Digg and Reddit didn’t even have comments at first. It was ALL content from other sources. Even “reddit original content” is" original content from a creator posted to Reddit". Reddits “value” is ephemeral.

  • Makeitstop@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Just what we need, more walled gardens and exclusivity deals. And of course, another way of monetizing your data, because we don’t have enough of that already.

    Search results are already fucked enough as it is. We don’t need to start carving up the internet and and dividing it among different search engines.