CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

  • 5 Card Draw@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    2 years ago

    He’s completely right, except that tech giants include reddit itself…

    Personal data is ours alone. If someone wants to sell it then so be it, but we own it not anyone else.

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    2 years ago

    They have been running a top 10 website without any idea how to make money off it now they are killing it trying to squeeze profit out of it so these psychopaths can have a wallstreet pay day. I spent 15 years providing content to the site bcz I loved it. I signed up so long ago I don’t even remember the agreement I made with then upon sign up. Fuck em.

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    2 years ago

    “We spend multimillions of dollars on hosting fees…

    Multimillions? Are those like mega pints?