• CrateDane
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    1 year ago

    It’s funny how he’s playing this out to be about third party apps like Apollo. Like yeah, that’s what the community cares about, but the reason they’re making the changes is because he’s fucking anal about OpenAI and other companies finding such success with products they have built using data scraped via the Reddit API.

    The data could just be scraped without the API anyway.

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      1 year ago

      Absolutely, but the API offers a really smooth and convenient way of doing it without a lot of extra processing overhead. Scraping HTML is a little bit more involved.