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[The Guardian] There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dimspace to c/lemmyworld

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CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

That “corpus of data” is the content posted by millions of Reddit users over the decades. It is a fascinating and valuable record of what they were thinking and obsessing about. Not the tiniest fraction of it was created by Huffman, his fellow executives or shareholders. It can only be seen as belonging to them because of whatever skewed “consent” agreement its credulous users felt obliged to click on before they could use the service.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plus AI companies can just scrape reddit without using the API. It's still a website after all.

[–] JustZ 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They want the timing of how long a user looks at something. They can't scrape that from third party apps.

[–] AustralianSimon 1 points 1 year ago

Yes you can. PC emulation of apps is common.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For how much longer though? I wouldn't put it past them to try to make it only available through an app

[–] dxxth 6 points 1 year ago

If the data is that important to them that they kill the site, then they're more dumb than I think. Apps can be scraped too. It isn't even difficult.

[–] PuffyPanda 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I highly doubt Reddit is gonna shut down their website.

[–] Nahlej 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw a post saying they were testing restricting mobile access to only through the app.

[–] PuffyPanda 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, they’ve done that already. I don’t think they’ll extend that to actual web tho