Reddit has started blocking search engines from scraping user content unless they pay up. Google is now the only mainstream search engine that yields recent Reddit results.
Reddit is ramping up its crackdown on web crawlers. Over the past few weeks, Reddit has started blocking search engines from surfacing recent posts and comments unless the search engine pays up, according to a report from 404 Media. Right now, Google is the only mainstream search engine that shows recent results when you search for posts on Reddit using the “site:reddit.com” trick, 404 Media reports.
After making its API more expensive for some third-party developers, Reddit reportedly threatened to cut off Google if it didn’t stop using the platform’s data to train AI for free. The Verge reached out to Reddit with a request for comment but didn’t immediately hear back. Last month, to enforce its policy against scraping, Reddit updated the site’s robots.txt file, which tells web crawlers whether they can access a site.
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