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So if I’m understanding this correctly, reddit aims to become more profitable by selling “its” data to companies that are training AI. Google et al are currently “scraping” this data and thus getting for free what reddit considers valuable.
Spez is out of his good goddang mind.
Google is too big to care what reddit does. They’ll scrape elsewhere or “accidentally” steal the data rather than pay a dime.
The irony is that Reddit thinks their internal search can in any way, shape or form compete with Google or other actual search engines. People use Google to find stuff on Reddit because Reddit’s own search is hopeless.
Do it, /u/spez. I dare you.
This is the main reason I no longer am active on Reddit. I object to them monetizing content I create. They can monetize many aspects of the site and that’s fine but whatever I create is either free to all, or monetizanle by me but not by the host of that content.
Appending “site:reddit.com” to a Google search has become a popular trick for weeding SEO farms and other attention-seeking websites out of Google results, but if this change goes through, you might not be able to access Reddit from search at all.
Even this article knows.
If this goes through then my reddit usage will officially reach 0, as Google results are how I end up there nowadays anyway.
Yup. It’s a huge shame, because
site:reddit.com …some nuanced technical problem or error..is often just as good as - if not better than - stackoverflow.
Ah well, guess we’ll all have to memorize some more computer science things…
I use untrackme on Android to redirect Searx results to RedReader, and to redirect Voyager or Eternity to Stealth. I deleted all my accounts, I will delete those redirects if this happens.
ETA : I can’t find the arstechnica article, but this has been a thing for awhile. Reddit search is garbage, you have always needed an outside search to find anything.
