Related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35617763 ("Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems"; an aside, but I much prefer the title of this post I'm commenting on as it describes the actual change) and it's hard to find this particularly disagreeable. Especially considering:
> Reddit’s API will remain free to developers who want to build apps and bots that help people to use Reddit, as well as to researchers who wish to study Reddit for strictly academic or noncommercial purposes.
> But companies that “crawl” Reddit for data and “don’t return any of that value” to users will have to pay up,” Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman told The Times.
> Reddit’s API will remain free to developers who want to build apps and bots that help people to use Reddit, as well as to researchers who wish to study Reddit for strictly academic or noncommercial purposes.
> But companies that “crawl” Reddit for data and “don’t return any of that value” to users will have to pay up,” Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman told The Times.