tacofox@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI.English
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5 months agoFirst of all, tacos are friends, not food…
Secondly, I think it’s more important what they did to achieve this goal, locking down the API behind a paywall was their way of creating value in their data. They knew then that it would be too expensive for independent developers to pay for but didn’t care. They knew the money would be coming AI data brokers.
What are people’s thoughts on MetaGER? I started using it when I switched over to librewolf web browser and I really like the base free option, it looks like they have a monetization model but I haven’t looked into it much.
I tried SearchXNG a couple of times but it never stuck. Ashamed to say but google is still used as a backup a lot of time.