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minus-square TehPers ( @TehPers@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoPeople on Chrome adding Reddit to their Google searches already use Google. People not using Google who don’t search “Reddit” are going to see fewer Reddit results. No, this won’t kill Reddit, but it certainly isn’t helping them get more traffic.
minus-square lemmyvore ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month ago…I thought that was the whole point of Spez blocking other spiders.
minus-square The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoThey don’t care about traffic. They care about the existing barrel of data for the data models
People on Chrome adding Reddit to their Google searches already use Google. People not using Google who don’t search “Reddit” are going to see fewer Reddit results.
No, this won’t kill Reddit, but it certainly isn’t helping them get more traffic.
…I thought that was the whole point of Spez blocking other spiders.
They don’t care about traffic. They care about the existing barrel of data for the data models