After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site’s data.

“Without these agreements, we don’t have any say or knowledge of how our data is displayed and what it’s used for, which has put us in a position now of blocking folks who haven’t been willing to come to terms with how we’d like our data to be used or not used,” Huffman said in an interview this week. He specifically named Microsoft, Anthropic, and Perplexity for refusing to negotiate, saying it has been “a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

Reddit has been escalating its fight against crawlers in recent months. At the beginning of July, its robots.txt file was updated to block web crawlers it doesn’t have agreements with. Then people began noticing that Reddit results were only visible in Google results — where Reddit is paid for its data to be shown — and not other search engines like Bing.

  • @[email protected]
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    611 month ago

    “our data” buddy UGC is not yours. You just have a license to display it. I hate this guy

    • m-p{3}
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      341 month ago

      Go on, Reddit, put all of your content behind a login page and make yourself less useful every day.

      • Flying Squid
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        221 month ago

        They already block my VPN and restrict how many comments I can see on a desktop browser (Firefox).

      • @jacksilver
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        61 month ago

        It almost does, of you browse on the phone it’s really pushy about creating an account or using the app. If they hadn’t started restricting the apps I would have never found Lemmy.

      • @Z3k3
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        41 month ago

        This comemt made me search my reddit name and to my supprise I found comments I wrote years ago. I logged in but nothing showed in my account. I could however delete them when I re found while logg3d in

  • @[email protected]
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    471 month ago

    Didn’t they at some point argue that they didn’t own the data, because that would make them liable for the data?

    All the illegal stuff on Reddit now belongs to Reddit?

  • Praise Idleness
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    They should both pay their customers or keep theor hands off of their data.

    • Cadeillac
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      11 month ago

      This is the answer

  • @[email protected]
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    141 month ago

    Hmmmm. Reddit needs to pay money to peer. Reddit needs to pay end user ISPs to transfer data to the end user.

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