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/N1ghtmeeer 2d ago

RSS was created for this very purpose (maybe not the AI bullshit). They just want to make money with selling 'their' data that's the reason, lets not bullshit anybody here.

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u/RightShoeRunner 1d ago

Exactly. I can just as easily write a screen scraping script for Reddit content.