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Gasp0de on June 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative

They can still ban your service, e.g. block your IPs. Sure, you could then play a cat and mouse game with them, but your API clone going down every few days will make it unusable for anyone with a real purpose. The companies that reddit (officially) wants to target, e.g. OpenAI et al., have no problem scraping.

realusername on June 7, 2023 [–]

You can just host on Gcloud and report as GoogleBot, good luck with that. There's also plenty of proxy services.

> The companies that reddit (officially) wants to target, e.g. OpenAI et al., have no problem scraping.

Indeed, on their case they just need the datasets anyways

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