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coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit

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Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit

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coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago
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Reddit says that it doesn’t want companies scraping the site for AI. Microsoft says it’s not doing that.
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    yep, and the longer that happens the less value to the dataset. its becoming aged.

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      [Joke] See, Reddit’s doing a nice thing here! They’re making sure nobody ends up toxifying their own dataset by using Reddit’s garbage heap of bot posts!

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        google needs a checkbox of ‘ignore reddit’ im sick of having to manually add -reddit

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          Hey good news. Turns out you can use bing and not get back Reddit results

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            yeah but then i get back bing results. no one needs that

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          There’s a browser extension for that. It also works on Pintrest and other useless sites. https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs

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