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dylan604
on June 14, 2023
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The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and ful...
the realistic opp for Reddit is to charge Google access to the API which would more than cover all of the other API users. If Googs can afford to pay Apple and others to have their search be the default, they can afford to pay to crawl Reddit too
boomboomsubban
on June 14, 2023
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Reddit claims that is their goal, they're just doing it terribly making it hard to trust that it's actually their goal.
dplgk
on June 15, 2023
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Source?
boomboomsubban
on June 15, 2023
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Like everything they've said about the change is "we can't deal with tech mega companies making billions off of our api." A quick search gave
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/14/reddit-mo...
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