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Reddit habit is hard to break. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by jezebelley@lemmy.ml to c/technology

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I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it's crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.

Unfortunately now we're going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like "TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023" to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.

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[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? Doesn't google and similar search engines use web crawlers, outside of the devloper API of reddit? Or is that different for reddit?

[–] lovesyouandhugsyou 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently yes, but I'd imagine they're also going to disallow crawlers via robots.txt or what's to stop OpenAI and friends from acquiring the corpus that way? Though of course that assumes this whole thing is really thought through which might be a big assumption on my part...

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I think they will probably whitelist google's and microsoft's webcrawlers, seeing as it's kinda a huge source of traffic for them. But I'm far from an expert in this field XD