Enshittification begins again

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I don’t buy that as the reddit reason for their API change.

For a group that wants to feed AI models, web scraping reddit is barely a speed bump compared to having a nice API to use.

Reddit did what it did to force users onto their mobile app so they could better harvest user data and keep them from avoiding ads.

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This made me go check on OpenRed, a reddit app for iOS that didn’t use the API (a more than likely no-no - scraping the site, essentially).

Not only is it missing from the App Store, but the dev and his subreddit were both banned.

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It’s crazy how long Reddit was such a huge part of my life and then just like that, doesn’t exist.

The only thing I miss are the videos.

Videos don’t get traction here it seems.

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