Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract | TechCrunch
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The newly announced "Public Content Policy" will now join Reddit's existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit's data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and other partners.
  • @SzethFriendOfNimi
    22•7 months ago

    Probably what they’re targeting. Such as sites like safereddit, etc.

    • @rockSlayer
      38•7 months ago

      Well that’s part of the thing. Web scraping doesn’t get covered by policies. Like, they could ban your ip or any accounts you have, but web scraping itself will always be acceptable. It’s why projects like NewPipe and Invidious don’t care about YouTube cease and desist letters.

      • @werefreeatlast
        3•7 months ago

        Oops look like this community hasn’t been reviewed. Login if you still want to see the content.

        • @rockSlayer
          3•7 months ago

          Yea, I’ve seen those pop-ups when trying to find something out. It sucks but isn’t a significant barrier to web scraping

          • @werefreeatlast
            1•7 months ago

            I tried that on my desktop. So long as you are not actually logged in you cannot see the communities that are too small for a review or too adult after a review.

        • folkrav
          1•7 months ago

          Parsing absolutely comes with a lot more overhead. Especially since many websites integrate a lot of JS interactivity nowadays, you oftentimes don’t get the full contents you’re looking for straight out of the HTML you’re getting out of your HTTP request, depending on the site.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•7 months ago

          In what way?

          HTML definitely provides more overhead than json if you only care about the data.

    • @[email protected]English
      9•7 months ago

      Still waiting for the news that they took down old.reddit. Without the third party apps, that was the only way it could still be usable.