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Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

[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!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

google needs a checkbox of 'ignore reddit' im sick of having to manually add -reddit

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey good news. Turns out you can use bing and not get back Reddit results

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

yeah but then i get back bing results. no one needs that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

There's a browser extension for that. It also works on Pintrest and other useless sites. https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs