Reddit is closing its public feeds to keep AI scrapers out.
Reddit announced on Wednesday that RSS feeds end on 13 November and its public API closes in March. The company blames large-scale scraping and automated abuse, and will also lock old Reddit to recent logged-in users. Developers of approved apps and bots must register with Reddit before 12 January or lose access.
Why it mattersTools that read Reddit without logging in will stop working, from news readers to research scripts. The web's open plumbing is closing because AI companies drank from it.
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