Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay
Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay
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Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay
I mean... We basically knew that this was going to happen when they suddenly cared about API usage and staff were reverting people's comments/posts when they tried to mass-delete/poison them.
We knew they were going to sell to AI, I think withholding from search crawlers is a little unexpected.
Especially since it will drive down their traffic significantly. I thought it was well-known that Reddit is the "search engine hack" to get useful results.
I guess they're betting on the big players just paying.