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Reddit CEO Says Microsoft and Others Need To Pay To Search the Site
After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site's data. From a report: "Without these agreements, we don't have any say or knowledge of how our data is displayed and what it's used for, which h...
After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site's data. He specifically named Microsoft, Anthropic, and Perplexity for refusing to negotiate, saying it has been "a real pain in the ass to block these companies." At the beginning of July, its robots.txt file was updated to block web crawlers it doesn't have agreements with.
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