Our time has come
Doesn’t all this do is encourage scraping which uses up more infrastructure?
Also RIP all the reddit bots. But they already got the n-word bot so there aren’t any useful ones anyways.
Yup, not to mention an inevitable arms race between the scrapers and Reddit trying to ensure only humans are accessing the website leading to extremely convoluted capcha schemes. There’s a reason websites invented APIs to begin with.
Le_Smugbot 99 upvotes
It looks like you typed “their,” did you mean to type “there?” 😏
Quite a few apps used to scrape off of compact Reddit (i.reddit.com) before Reddit shut it down.
they made it so the fucking compact mobile view doesn’t work anymore this year, it’s fucking horseshit. once they make old.reddit.com stop working I’m never clicking a reddit link again outside of extreme duress
This is just reddit being a greedy SOB, folks. Its literally not enough that reddit sells EVERY piece of user data (including email, location, EVERYTHING its users ever say) to 3rd party data miners. Scraping user data is such a potentially lucrative venture, yet the CEO is too clueless to figure out the monetization bit. Wow. Just wow. Give any sentient creature smart as a reasonably clever monkey a couple days on the job and they have this problem sussed.
Its literally not enough that reddit sells EVERY piece of user data (including email, location, EVERYTHING its users ever say) to 3rd party data miners.
Do you have a source I could link to a normal person for this?
I would encourage you to experiment with it to see what happens when you set up a burner account with a throway email and then start making comments that contain unique keywords. I did that a couple years ago and it was pretty obvious right away. They may have tightened up their policies since that point, but for sure you should experiment.
Also, there is this site, commonsensemedia.org, that AFAIK tell is kinda like a consumer reports type service. They’ve evaluated reddit. https://privacy.commonsense.org/evaluation/Reddit they say the following:
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Personal information is shared for third-party marketing.
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Personalised advertising is displayed.
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Data are collected by third-parties for their own purposes.
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User’s information is used to track and target advertisements on other third-party websites or services.
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Users can opt out of contextual, or personalised advertising.
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Users can opt out or unsubscribe from marketing communications.
I really couldn’t say what the research or evaluation protocol is that they are using, but the above page was updated/created in 2022. Hope this helps.
Yeah I’m really curious about how are they doing this report. I mean no doubt they harvest their data for god knows what ends, but they’re also seemingly running their own analytics software, at least on the webpage, they don’t have scripts for google tag, or facebook, firebase, datadog, new relic, none of that shit that is typically used to target you. My guess is that all their tracking is mostly done on the app, much harder to detect there without sniffing packages, so figures they would want to flat out block third party apps.
Expect lots of new accounts here, they’re already requesting them on Lemmygrad but because we’re strictly Marxist I send the non-marxist socialists here instead.
We might get more activity here, but a real influx of new accounts requires substantial advertising beforehand
Lemmy dev parentis_shotgun plugged Lemmy all over the Apollo thread. All of their comments were received positively, but 3 of their comments (1, 2, 3) have over 200 upvotes so far.
The join link they posted was to https://join-lemmy.org/ , but since Hexbear does not federate yet, we’re not listed as an instance, and Lemmygrad seems to be getting most of the attention from that plug.
When you don’t intentionally make your website shit to drive people towards your data mining app, apps aren’t necessary. There are third party apps, but I’ve never needed one. Same on Mastodon.
finally, I’m free from that wretched place :jazz-passion:
