Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

  • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
    68·
    2 months ago

    My only regret was not deleting all my comments before deleting my reddit account :P

    • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      571·
      2 months ago

      Don’t regret too much. I wouldn’t be surprised if reddit’s “delete” function was really just "move to the “suckers-wanted-to-delete-this” file.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
        20·
        2 months ago

        I “deleted” all my posts, then randomly had someone reply to a 3 year old post that wasn’t showing up in my profile but still showed on the page.

        Don’t delete your comments, edit them to be useless.

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          And as a positive to editing rather than deleting, you may have your comment taken down by AutoMod anyway! I had AutoMod take down a ton of my comments because they were flagged a spam because I used a replacement text tool to mass fix a decade worth a comments on multiple accounts. So many messages from AutoMod…

      • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteEnglish
        23·
        2 months ago

        Same, plus or minus a year.

        It took me a week, but I scrambled every comment and post with lorem ipsum and bee movie scripts, deleted the comments, then after verifying I could no longer find any of my original content on any search engine outside archive sites, I deleted the account.

        It took so long because r*ddit started limiting API access when they realized people were automating their profile scrubbing.

        As I’ve said before about certain countries, if you’re doing everything you can to prevent people from leaving [THING/PLACE] then you might just be shit.

        • FenrirIII@lemmy.worldEnglish
          43·
          2 months ago

          I was straight IP banned permanently for reporting the Israeli genocide fans and racists arguing for the eradication of Palestinians. I just deleted the account because I never imagined they would turn into such shitheels.

          • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            2 months ago

            And here I got IP banned for saying we should murk the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. This was around the time the journalist got butchered in that Saudi Embassy. As an aside the Saudis have oil and are assholes how long till we start drone striking them?

            • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              As an aside the Saudis have oil and are assholes how long till we start drone striking them?

              They would either need to stop playing ball, or oil is no longer a staple for energy generation and transport needs.

              Until then, the 9/11 architects will be able to hang out and do whatever they want.

              Also, thanks for protecting your friends that day GW, here’s hoping you get “touched” by a friend from a long way away…

    • demizerone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I deleted my top comments and left the trash, which was 15 years worth. AI can hallucinate off that trash all it wants.