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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good idea for those who are covered by the GDPR. Doesn't help me, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 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