Dot.@feddit.org to TechnologyEnglish · 1 year agoReddit shares soar after company turns first-ever profit.www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down147
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minus-squareBombOmOmlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·1 year agoThis was the reason they made the API changes. They wanted to charge for easy access to the content. Sure, you can scrape every Reddit page, but nobody has time for that. Pay up and hoover down Reddit comments for you AI training.
minus-squarethemeatbridgelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoIt also forced users onto their app, which creates a captive market for force-serving ads disguised as content.
This was the reason they made the API changes. They wanted to charge for easy access to the content. Sure, you can scrape every Reddit page, but nobody has time for that. Pay up and hoover down Reddit comments for you AI training.
It also forced users onto their app, which creates a captive market for force-serving ads disguised as content.