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Wander @yiffit.net

2y ago

Come on, Reddit. Join your pal, Elon. Something something web scraping

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Next thing you know Reddit wills top paying rent and hosting fees lol
- Would we really put that past Spez? No, no we wouldn't.
  
  well, he is following in Musk's footsteps, so I wouldn't be surprised honestly.
  
  after all why not? why shouldn't i charge rent and hosting fees?
Prediction: AI companies / start ups will use AI itself to almost seamlessly adapt their scrapers to any breaking layout/html changes.
And there's nothing Twitter or Reddit can do about it... unless they want to serve their site in webassembly 😂
- webassembly still won’t close the analog hole :)
  
  https://youtu.be/XHtxzCWsDe4
  This is a mobile click farm, you can bet that AI companies would find a way to scrape via OCR if they need to. Even if it means having to set up rooms with hundreds of monitors and physical optic screen readers.
It aches my heart to see their faces on such wholesome characters 😔

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