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Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract (techcrunch.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The newly announced "Public Content Policy" will now join Reddit's existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit's data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and other partners.

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[–] pete_the_cat 47 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, we see more and more commercial entities using unauthorized access or misusing authorized access to collect public data in bulk, including Reddit public content, worse, these entities perceive they have no limitation on their usage of that data, and they do so with no regard for user rights or privacy, ignoring reasonable legal, safety, and user removal requests. While we will continue our efforts to block known bad actors, we need to do more to restrict access to Reddit public content at scale to trusted actors who have agreed to abide by our policies. But we also need to continue to ensure that users, mods, researchers, and other good-faith, non-commercial actors have access.”

So, pay to get access, like Google did with their $60 million deal. We're nothing but money to them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

We’re nothing but money to them.

Welcome to capitalism?

Always has been.

[–] subtext 1 points 6 months ago

They do so with no regard for user rights or privacy

Yeah but throw them a buck and all those rights and privacy go away