coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 4 months agoMicrosoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Redditwww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down10
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minus-squarejarfil@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoGoogle is paying for the use of Reddit’s API, not for scraping the site. That’s the new Reddit’s business model: want “their” (users’) content, then pay for API access.
Google is paying for the use of Reddit’s API, not for scraping the site.
That’s the new Reddit’s business model: want “their” (users’) content, then pay for API access.