Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

  • @[email protected]English
    74•9 months ago

    Don’t regret too much. I wouldn’t be surprised if reddit’s “delete” function was really just "move to the “suckers-wanted-to-delete-this” file.

    • The QuuuuuillEnglish
      20•9 months ago

      If you delete your content do it in the form form of a GDPR takedown request

        • The QuuuuuillEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          Good news, Reddit’s crap ass infra doesn’t differentiate if a GDPR request is legitimate or spurious. Or at least it didn’t back when I processed mine, they may have closed that loophole

    • @[email protected]English
      29•9 months ago

      I “deleted” all my posts, then randomly had someone reply to a 3 year old post that wasn’t showing up in my profile but still showed on the page.

      Don’t delete your comments, edit them to be useless.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•9 months ago

          Probably, but when someone is going through old posts they are going to see the edit, not the history. The main goal here is to make Reddit less useful so people go elsewhere. Let Google’s AI be trained on Bot posts.

      • @[email protected]English
        6•9 months ago

        And as a positive to editing rather than deleting, you may have your comment taken down by AutoMod anyway! I had AutoMod take down a ton of my comments because they were flagged a spam because I used a replacement text tool to mass fix a decade worth a comments on multiple accounts. So many messages from AutoMod…