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.”

  • 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…