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Redditors Go To War With The Company As It Enforces Eye-Watering Prices For Reddit API (www.forbes.com)

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[-] kresten@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

I don't get your argument. A service that uses the api once or twice a year, and uses much less of the offered features, and generally stresses the website much less... Is to pay more, simply because the application is worth more?

[-] TechyDad@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago

I think he's calling out the fact that the justification for the API pricing changes was partially "we've got to stop AI training bots from scraping Reddit." However, the pricing changes were actually made to hit third party developers hard and not hit the AI modelers that hard.

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