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minus-square TehPers ( @TehPers@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish5•5 months 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 The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoThey don’t care about traffic. They care about the existing barrel of data for the data models
minus-square lemmyvore ( @lemmyvore@feddit.nl ) linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months ago…I thought that was the whole point of Spez blocking other spiders.
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.
They don’t care about traffic. They care about the existing barrel of data for the data models
…I thought that was the whole point of Spez blocking other spiders.