This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
"Without these agreements, we don’t have any say or knowledge of how our data is displayed and what it’s used for, which has put us in a position now of blocking folks who haven’t been willing to come to terms with how we’d like our data to be used or not used,” Huffman said in an interview this week
It's not your data.
Fuck off.
My only regret was not deleting all my comments before deleting my reddit account :P
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.
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.
If you delete your content do it in the form form of a GDPR takedown request
Same. 13+ years of insanity and grouchy comments are gonna mess up the AIs
Same, plus or minus a year.
It took me a week, but I scrambled every comment and post with lorem ipsum and bee movie scripts, deleted the comments, then after verifying I could no longer find any of my original content on any search engine outside archive sites, I deleted the account.
It took so long because r*ddit started limiting API access when they realized people were automating their profile scrubbing.
As I've said before about certain countries, if you're doing everything you can to prevent people from leaving [THING/PLACE] then you might just be shit.
Part of the ToS. Whatever you put on there is effectively theirs. Same with Facebook and your photos etc.
Fuck Spez
Spez gets a ton of online hate and it is still somehow not enough hate.
Without these agreements, we don’t have any say or knowledge of how our data is displayed and what it’s used for, which has put us in a position now of blocking folks who haven’t been willing to come to terms with how we’d like our data to be used or not used
It’s the users’ data, not yours, you rent seeking fuck
“It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.” makes me regret ever using Reddit in my life. Get your profit whatever, but this is just beyond greed.
"Let's see ... how do we get more people to visit our site? I know! We'll prevent search engines from sending people to it!"
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It's phase three of the enshittification cycle. In phase one, you attract users by providing a good service. Once they're locked in, you squeeze them for all they're worth by switching focus to business customers. Once they're locked in, you squeeze them by threatening to deny them access to the users on whom they now depend.
Big profit now is better than our long term image
~ Reddit shareholders
Ok, now I'm miffed that Google caved to Reddit's demands and paid up.
Because this set a dangerous precedent.
Earlier, Google got a lot of demands from various publications to pay up for indexing the publicly available news sites. And they always responded with "Ok, guess you leave us no other choice than just exclude you from indexing altogether." Let the site simmer for a while until they went "oh shit, not being indexed by major search engines sucks. we didn't really mean it please come back"
It's especially jarring because Reddit doesn't even produce their own news content anyway. That search engine money isn't going to the content creators. News sites at least could say they need to pay for their content to be written by their employees.
Fuck U/spez
"People who fecklessly farm other people's data upset at other companies are farming their data."
Well Reddit should just sue these companies and see if these companies are actually breaking any laws. Holding sizeable chunk of the internet hostage also sounds like something the EU and US might want to look in to as it very much sounds like anti-competitive conduct or market manipulation.
Also if these companies want to have greater ownership over the content generated by their users they should also be much more liable for the content posted to their sites. I mean when something like the Section 230 was written they probably did not take this in to account. If these companies want to start selling user generated content then they should simply lose the immunity from liability.
Remember when Reddit was pro net neutrality?
Spez has a bunker to build!
Reddit should have to pay to work on windows....
Microsoft paying Reddit to pay Microsoft to pay Reddit to pay...
Stock prices absolutely skyrocketing with the news of this infinite revenue stream.
the exodus must have worked if they're having to do this to shore up income.
We can be so glad we left. That placees quality has dropped so much.
Reddit is for porn and perhaps age old posts now.
This is for you, Reddit: 🎻
lol. That’s not how any of this works.
If you have content freely and publicly accessible, it will be read freely by humans and bots.
Reddit only exists because of an open net and sharing content, noe they just suddenly determined that an open net is bad.
A common strategy, but it fucking sucks.
Fuck you reddit.
Pay for what now, it's full of bots. And disingenuous people. Add to that the self moderation people put themselves through to interact in that website
Reddit says web clients have visited their public, free website without permission.
Fixed.
I've said once and I'll say it again. Either the information on your site is free to all or to none. You can't have some people/entities pay and some not!
