• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    8 days ago

    Open browsing is letting anyone read what the site has.

    My suspicion on why, is because AI bots and crawlers can just read the contents of the posts and send it back to whoever prompted, thus “stealing” clicks that would otherwise go into reddit proper and generate ad money

    • Final Remix@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Yup. They have an exclusive deal with specific AI scrapers; don’t want to let other scrapers to keep getting the bot-infested shit for free.

      • NovaVeles@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        Sooo… your saying Reddit is based because they are slowing model collapse?

        In case others do se the joke, yes that is a joke.