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[–] [email protected] 69 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Parts of the Internet now only searchable on specific sites now? What next - charging a monthly subscription to use Google?

This needs to be regulated before the Internet becomes like streaming TV.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Excellent! Now I won't get reddit results and then have to filter them out!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Sounds great to me. With reddit gone maybe we can start to find what we are looking for without having to go sort through reddit.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

Thank you Lemmy, for making it so much easier to walk away from that dumpster fire!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Alright then. The 3rd party app drama already pushed me here. I really won't go back for anything if I'm not allowed to search for Reddit anymore.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

This seems illegal to me 😮

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is Google really permitted to prevent any other search engine from looking at Reddit?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I guess Reddit is permitted to only let Google index it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know of any law that says that they can't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I also don’t know if a law that says search engines have to honor a robots.txt file. I guess we will see what happens if Bing or some other service decides to ignore it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You can just require a log in to view content, or just flat out auto ban indexing robots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

How can they do that, logistically?

Like I realize there's a flag they can raise that asks not to be indexed but that's not legally binding.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I guess they can make it hard to index by scraping by rate limiting or requiring login to view content etc and only provide Google the api to bypass the restrictions

There's probably a lot of ways to do it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

just begin with site:reddit.com test for brave search and it still works

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

did you set time limit to last week? old posts are still indexed. just tried "site:reddit.com df:w" on DDG and no hits

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I can confirm, it works just fine on brave search. I set the time limit to yesterday and it still gave me results

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

test site:reddit.com works fine from DDG for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

set the date filter to something recent, test site:reddit.com df:w (results from last week only) gives 0 hours hits

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Well that's annoying. One work around is to use a redirect extension like Libredirect and you can still search via the !reddit bang on DuckDuckGo. Thusly if I type into my search bar which has DuckDuckGo as default:

!reddit some new post or topic, it will search reddit for the search term, then when it attempts to load the reddit page, the libredirect extension will redirect and show the results.

Requires a bit of configuring and sure is annoying, but hey, no Google search necessary to get the up to date reddit threads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

And Brave Search