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
    30·
    3 months ago

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

    • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      3 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
        2·
        3 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.

          • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Probably, but when someone is going through old posts they are going to see the edit, not the history. The main goal here is to make Reddit less useful so people go elsewhere. Let Google’s AI be trained on Bot posts.

          • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Good news, Reddit’s crap ass infra doesn’t differentiate if a GDPR request is legitimate or spurious. Or at least it didn’t back when I processed mine, they may have closed that loophole

      • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteEnglish
        4·
        3 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
          1·
          3 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.

          • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            3 months ago

            I got IP banned for asking if there was any “good news” about Mitch McConnell after his strokes. I intentionally worded it ambiguously, but the mod on r/politics looked at my political history/not a conservative and decided I was celebrating violence and so I was IP banned. I guess only Mitch McConnell is allowed to salivate at violence openly and the rest of us are supposed to be worried for his health. It’s not a problem if women are the ones he’s directing violence towards, but God forbid a woman speak back to him. Pregnancy and birth cause strokes and clots, and that’s preferable to him vs an abortion… but God forbid he get strokes at the end of his life from being a horrible person and I find that preferable to his stupid harmful policies

            • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              The way they enforce that no violence rule is so fucking stupid. Even if you had said “I hope that stroke implodes his brain” you aren’t advocating violence. A medical issue isn’t violence.

          • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            0·
            3 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
              1·
              3 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…