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After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site’s data.

“Without these agreements, we don’t have any say or knowledge of how our data is displayed and what it’s used for, which has put us in a position now of blocking folks who haven’t been willing to come to terms with how we’d like our data to be used or not used,” Huffman said in an interview this week. He specifically named Microsoft, Anthropic, and Perplexity for refusing to negotiate, saying it has been “a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

Reddit has been escalating its fight against crawlers in recent months. At the beginning of July, its robots.txt file was updated to block web crawlers it doesn’t have agreements with. Then people began noticing that Reddit results were only visible in Google results — where Reddit is paid for its data to be shown — and not other search engines like Bing.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"our data" buddy UGC is not yours. You just have a license to display it. I hate this guy

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Go on, Reddit, put all of your content behind a login page and make yourself less useful every day.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

They already block my VPN and restrict how many comments I can see on a desktop browser (Firefox).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It almost does, of you browse on the phone it's really pushy about creating an account or using the app. If they hadn't started restricting the apps I would have never found Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This comemt made me search my reddit name and to my supprise I found comments I wrote years ago. I logged in but nothing showed in my account. I could however delete them when I re found while logg3d in

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They only show you a limited number of results. You need to do a GDPR export and delete from that list: https://github.com/mbirth/reddit-cleaner

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Didn't they at some point argue that they didn't own the data, because that would make them liable for the data?

All the illegal stuff on Reddit now belongs to Reddit?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Heads I win, tails you lose.

[–] praise_idleness 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They should both pay their customers or keep theor hands off of their data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is the answer

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Obligatory fuck spez

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Hmmmm. Reddit needs to pay money to peer. Reddit needs to pay end user ISPs to transfer data to the end user.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

So now duckduckgo won’t show reddit? Great!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Gotta keep that stock price up.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

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