Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit
Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit
Reddit says that it doesn’t want companies scraping the site for AI. Microsoft says it’s not doing that.
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The beef between Microsoft and Reddit came to light after I published a story revealing that Reddit is currently blocking every crawler from every search engine except Google, which earlier this year agreed to pay Reddit $60 million a year to scrap the site for its generative AI products.
I know the author meant "scrape", but sometimes it really does feel like AI is just scrapping the old internet for parts.
Yeah, aren't like over half of reddit comments/posts by bots these days?
yep, and the longer that happens the less value to the dataset. its becoming aged.
[Joke] See, Reddit's doing a nice thing here! They're making sure nobody ends up toxifying their own dataset by using Reddit's garbage heap of bot posts!
google needs a checkbox of 'ignore reddit' im sick of having to manually add -reddit
Hey good news. Turns out you can use bing and not get back Reddit results
yeah but then i get back bing results. no one needs that
There's a browser extension for that. It also works on Pintrest and other useless sites. https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs