coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 9 months agoMicrosoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Redditwww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1107arrow-down10
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minus-squarecybermass@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up13·9 months agoYeah, aren’t like over half of reddit comments/posts by bots these days?
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·9 months agoyep, and the longer that happens the less value to the dataset. its becoming aged.
minus-squareKeriKitty (They(/It))@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-29 months ago[Joke] See, Reddit’s doing a nice thing here! They’re making sure nobody ends up toxifying their own dataset by using Reddit’s garbage heap of bot posts!
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agogoogle needs a checkbox of ‘ignore reddit’ im sick of having to manually add -reddit
minus-squareThe Cuuuuube@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 months agoHey good news. Turns out you can use bing and not get back Reddit results
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoyeah but then i get back bing results. no one needs that
minus-squarei_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoThere’s a browser extension for that. It also works on Pintrest and other useless sites. https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs
Yeah, aren’t like over half of reddit comments/posts by bots these days?
yep, and the longer that happens the less value to the dataset. its becoming aged.
[Joke] See, Reddit’s doing a nice thing here! They’re making sure nobody ends up toxifying their own dataset by using Reddit’s garbage heap of bot posts!
google needs a checkbox of ‘ignore reddit’ im sick of having to manually add -reddit
Hey good news. Turns out you can use bing and not get back Reddit results
yeah but then i get back bing results. no one needs that
There’s a browser extension for that. It also works on Pintrest and other useless sites. https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs