This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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).
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
Down voted for post about that other site
They are just trying to leech out as much money as possible before the go the way of Digg.
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.
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.
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.
Fuck U/spez
Well Reddit should just sue these companies and see if these companies are actually breaking any laws. Holding sizeable chunk of the internet hostage also sounds like something the EU and US might want to look in to as it very much sounds like anti-competitive conduct or market manipulation.
Also if these companies want to have greater ownership over the content generated by their users they should also be much more liable for the content posted to their sites. I mean when something like the Section 230 was written they probably did not take this in to account. If these companies want to start selling user generated content then they should simply lose the immunity from liability.
Scraping isn't illegal, they can't do anything
It's also just indexing not some data harvesting too.
fuck spez little piggy greedy soy boy
Hey ! Leave us soy boys out of it, we hate Spez as much as you do!
Remember when Reddit was pro net neutrality?
Spez has a bunker to build!
"People who fecklessly farm other people's data upset at other companies are farming their data."
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.
Reddit says "blablabla" . Reddit is just trying to stop its communistic website from losing money.
Reddit says "we will give you access" once you pay us and feather our pockets.
Fuck spez, what a cunt. Delete all your comments etc, and let the AI rot in retarded posts.
