Comment by abdullahkhalids
2 years ago
The API changes and these robots.txt were part of the same strategy - preventing third parties from scrapping their data and reducing the AI generated content that makes it into their data. So they can sell that data and make money.
> their data
Love how it's their data when it might make them money but not their data if they get sued.
That's fair. I agree with you that in some sense it is user data. And that Reddit is operating unethically.
Their dataset is already polluted with misinformation campaigns and shilling