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Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 months ago by hotpot8toe@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.”

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Beyond that, if you are serving webpages with data on them, you don't get to decide what people do with those pages. They can't stop search engines from scraping

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

you can decide who you serve pages to

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Just to nitpick, they can stop scraping, anyone can. However, doing so would require implementing barriers that tend to also negatively effect sites that are dependent on being discovered and browsed.