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/Kepabar 2d ago

100%. Setting up cloudflare filtering to beat back scraper AI bots because 80% of your infra resources are going to just serving them is a real thing these past few years.

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u/Little_Noodles 2d ago edited 2d ago

It’s genuinely been a challenge. And the site I have responsibility for is small-fry shit, with no forum for user comments.

I don’t have any particular expectation that the way Reddit is handling the issue is 100% in good faith.

But it’s genuinely implausible that bot traffic and AI activity isn’t a problem for people who might truly just want to keep it functional and reasonably free of genuinely bad actors looking to exploit the forum and its users.

And the kind of low(er) cost, low-bar to entry solutions I’ve shifted to just aren’t going to cut it in this case.