“It’s another move to protect against AI scraping.”
Not because they’re against AI getting their data, oh no - because they SELL their data to google to use for their AI.
Submitted 7 months ago by misk@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archive-wayback-machine-block-limit
Comments
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 7 months ago
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Pfffft who cares let the bots fight the bots. Tis all that is left anyhoo.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It’s another move to protect against AI scraping.
irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Problem is scraper bots are way more aggressive and harder to block. If they were ignoring Reddit because they were taking content from IA but IA is willing to obey robots.txt whereas scraper bots are not, they just shifted the load of serving the bots or playing whack-a-mole with their block evading mechanisms. They aren’t going to stop the bots. It may result in being able to negotiate a license with the bigger guys, but that’s likely not going to make up for the money they spend on dealing with the bots in the long run. Of course companies like this don’t really think long term, it just looks good to investors this quarter.
RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 7 months ago
Sunshine@piefed.ca 7 months ago
And they will victimblame themselves later!
bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Who?
reddig33@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ha! That just means all the content deleted by users who left Reddit is actually inaccessible.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No, they reverted a lot of that. Bulk restoring even “overwritten” post data several weeks and months after the fact, after most people stopped checking.
reddig33@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My deleted posts have stayed deleted so far.
over_clox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Everyone say it with me now…
FUCK SPEZ!
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
You rang?
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.