Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit

catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It wants you inside of it

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• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Think of all the horrible CSAM posts I can flood reddit with while NOT LOGGED IN! They must be in shambles!

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  • trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be fair, the likely reason in this case is AI companies mass-downloading Reddit posts for their training runs. You can’t really cache the internet, so from what I understand, every training run they scrape this stuff anew.

    For many smaller sites, it’s effectively a denial-of-service attack, which is why lots of them have put up this thing:
    Anubis bot protection screen

    For Reddit, it might just be additional traffic that they have to pay for and which doesn’t give them any profit. Although, if Reddit is still as unstable as it was years ago, I also wouldn’t be surprised, if they got DoSed by that a few times as well.

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    • SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What you say is true, but not the reason. Part of reddit’s business model is selling its data to AI companies. So they just don’t want to give it away for free

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      • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        selling its data

        Correction, selling its users’ data.

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  • zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You cannot, and never could, post without logging in.

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    • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think it was a sarcastic attack on the claim that forcing you to log in for read-only access to the website is in any way keeping anything safer than it was.

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• irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s not really what that means, they don’t want people scraping reddit, which is much easier on old reddit.

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  • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah I know I just thought it was funny that the first line is, we need to keep Reddit safe.

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