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Reddit ends RSS feed support and free API access to block AI scraping

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Reddit is discontinuing RSS feeds and ending free API access to prevent AI systems from scraping its data.

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Reddit announced it is ending support for RSS feeds and eliminating free API access as part of efforts to restrict artificial intelligence systems from scraping its content. The moves represent the platform's strategy to control how its data is used for AI training and development, which has broader implications for content discovery, indexing, and the availability of Reddit content to search engines and other services that relied on those access methods.

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