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lvxferre ,

To commemorate Steve “Greedy Pigboy” Huffman’s assertiveness, I’ve made some memes. Enjoy.

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mightyfoolish ,

I stopped appending reddit to my search terms. I won’t go back to Google search; especially after the GamersNexus video featuring Wendell from Level1 Techs.

Lost_My_Mind ,

And Lost_My_Mind says to reddit…oh, it’s just a middle finger.

Zak ,
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On one hand, that’s a shitty, greedy move from Reddit. All of the data, and value is provided by the users.

On the other hand, Microsoft does want to feed it into OpenAI and present it on a Bing search engine result page rather than sending the visitor to Reddit where they might join a community (or view an ad or ten).

ryper ,

The article says OpenAI made a deal with Reddit, so blocking Microsoft isn’t going to keep Reddit’s data from getting fed to OpenAI

melroy ,
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We shouldn't accept this behavior or other companies will follow!

sunzu ,

Look at all the work we done... some 200million per year dude is selling it now...

aint this grand?!

Pika ,
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then don’t block it \0/ they’ll get in anyway and all they are doing is harming their user base with all the restrictions. I unblocked reddit for the hell of it the other day and it looks like I don’t need to block it anymore, they think my home network is a VPN so they did me a favor and did the footwork for me.

Makeitstop ,

Just what we need, more walled gardens and exclusivity deals. And of course, another way of monetizing your data, because we don’t have enough of that already.

Search results are already fucked enough as it is. We don’t need to start carving up the internet and and dividing it among different search engines.

cmnybo ,

They are just trying to leech out as much money as possible before the go the way of Digg.

paraphrand ,

It would be interesting if any large companies got behind promoting and endorsing federated media to get around this sort of situation.

I suspect paying money is easier. And they probally assume their need to do so will be temporary. AGI will fix everything, right? Feel it. Feel the AGI.

Vipsu ,
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Well Reddit should just sue these companies and see if these companies are actually breaking any laws. Holding sizeable chunk of the internet hostage also sounds like something the EU and US might want to look in to as it very much sounds like anti-competitive conduct or market manipulation.

Also if these companies want to have greater ownership over the content generated by their users they should also be much more liable for the content posted to their sites. I mean when something like the Section 230 was written they probably did not take this in to account. If these companies want to start selling user generated content then they should simply lose the immunity from liability.

nobleshift ,
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Down voted for post about that other site

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