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Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit (www.404media.co)

submitted 3 months ago by theangriestbird@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 59 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cybermass@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, aren't like over half of reddit comments/posts by bots these days?

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yep, and the longer that happens the less value to the dataset. its becoming aged.

[–] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

[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!

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

google needs a checkbox of 'ignore reddit' im sick of having to manually add -reddit

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey good news. Turns out you can use bing and not get back Reddit results

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 3 months ago

yeah but then i get back bing results. no one needs that

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

There's a browser extension for that. It also works on Pintrest and other useless sites. https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs