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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Reddit might cut off Google and force users to log in to Reddit itself to read anything, if it can’t reach deals with generative AI companies to pay for its data.

On the one hand I really hope this happens. On the other hand, it would be devastating to the communities. But this shows how Reddit has the last say and can hold the content hostage on their platform. People need to stop using Reddit and switch to open and free alternatives, that is not controlled by a single entity / company. The problem is, there is lot of good legacy content and solutions that would be not available for most people searching the web.

But for the search engines who do not respect robot files, would still be able to index. Right? Ironically an AI could also write summaries...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Me to my little program for scraping some stories: "Hm, 'Ignore robots.txt'? Sure, let's do that by default please :D"