Why?
Because they want to monopolize AI scraping of their content, and they’re trying to prevent scraping by companies that didn’t pay for it.
Has literally nothing to do with the experience of the average user – it’s all about monetizing their user-submitted content as AI training material.
google is the main benficiary to the AI scraping along with openAI, which sells it to others like palantir down the road.
If it got walled, I wish people who posted years of content there would just delete it since it’s no longer for general public
I did that during the great exodus. Actually, I replaced all my comments with random book quotes six times over the course of two years before finally deleting them. So, if you ever have a question about obscure data lifecycle management techniques, cybersecurity, Destiny, data center power optimization, etc., and the chatbot replies with an excerpt of Jane Eyre or an nutritional breakdown of a tablespoon of almond oil, it took it from a backup of my old reddit account.
Evidently Reddit restores them now
Yeah, they replaced a bunch of mine at first. Its why I went through multiple iterations of text replacement over a couple of years. If they want to replace the text with the original, they’d have to a) notice that the text of the response.doesn’t match the comment it’s responding to, b) have to go back some random number between 5 to 8 iterations.
Yeah, it’s some bullshit. 🙆🏼♂️
Piggy boy is in charge what do you expect
Daddy Elon did it so Spez copied his idol just like with the API.
It’s to accelerate the exodus to the Fediverse, obviously. There can be no better anti-Reddit advocate than u/spez. Guy’s got talent. He’s a natural.
you can use an alternate frontend
On an iphone you can also just use the “remove distractions” tool to disappear the overlay that freezes the screen and tells you that you have to log in. After doing it the first time my phone automatically does it now and I can browse without issues. I only use it to search for specific questions/info at this point and its a good workaround to avoid that bullshit
android doesnt have this feature though? unless theres a workaround.
If you’re using Firefox for Android and have Ublock installed you open the Ublock menu and either select the element zapper (temporary) or element picker (permanent) to remove website objects
It is why I ended up here. So far, no complaints.
Reddit needs to croak already. New-reddit was the begining of the end.
Because fuck them, that’s why.
