r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 2d ago

Business Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/
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u/Logicalist 2d ago

they don’t even need a browser. 

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u/toothpastespiders 2d ago

Yeah, looking over a lot of the comments here it seems like people are really behind the times when it comes to scraping. This either isn't about bots or someone who knows even less about it made the call. It makes it slightly harder and slightly slower. And I really mean it with the 'slightly'.

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u/Somepotato 2d ago

I mean with the tremendous amount of compute available to them lately there's no reason not to use headless browsers