Reddit will force everyone to log in
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It's a very bold strategy, Google could easily decide to stop promoting Reddit results so aggressively.
However, I don't see this working against scrapers- it feels like scraping Reddit through unauthorized commercial APIs has only gotten cheaper since they introduced the first restrictions.
Reddit has an agreement with Google, only G is officially allowed to scrape reddit's content.
I believe they have agreements with both OpenAI and Google. That's why Claude does not source Reddit but GPT does.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50295893
So atp Discord is opening their public servers, enabling Google to show results from there, and reddit is closing theirs? :D