It’s another move to protect against AI scraping.
  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    30·
    4 days ago

    …we’re limiting some of their access to Reddit data to protect redditors,”

    This is the funniest, most transparent piece of PR bullshit I’ve seen today.

    Reddit doesn’t want the Internet Archive to give away information that Reddit wants to sell. That’s ALL. Privacy never enters the equation.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    4 days ago

    Ha! That just means all the content deleted by users who left Reddit is actually inaccessible.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      4 days ago

      No, they reverted a lot of that. Bulk restoring even “overwritten” post data several weeks and months after the fact, after most people stopped checking.

      Plus it’s going forwards, so anything in the Archive already is still there.

        • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
          31·
          4 days ago

          I don’t think they did. Unless you have evidence otherwise, I think this is a rumour which comes from a misunderstanding of how deletion tools worked.

          They did it to my comments. I had a like 15 year old account, hundreds of thousands of karma, and I deleted all of my comments that I could view in my profiles history and then deleted my account. Days later I found not only was my account undeleted, all of my comments that I deleted were back as if nothing ever happened - and my account was banned.

  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
    121·
    4 days ago

    “It’s another move to protect against AI scraping.”

    Not because they’re against AI getting their data, oh no - because they SELL their data to google to use for their AI.

  • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    Problem is scraper bots are way more aggressive and harder to block. If they were ignoring Reddit because they were taking content from IA but IA is willing to obey robots.txt whereas scraper bots are not, they just shifted the load of serving the bots or playing whack-a-mole with their block evading mechanisms. They aren’t going to stop the bots. It may result in being able to negotiate a license with the bigger guys, but that’s likely not going to make up for the money they spend on dealing with the bots in the long run. Of course companies like this don’t really think long term, it just looks good to investors this quarter.