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I appreciate that (and I believe you), but I have a problem with a cryptic company attempting to buy access to a shit-ton of raw data from Reddit without explicit permission from every user involved, and without any checks by independent administrators over how that data is used, stored, sold, or who is allowed to access it.
I also have a huge problem with it being an automatic opt-in system that requires multiple steps to opt out, none of which are being published for all Reddit users to see, and its source code being closed.
Comment by Meepster23 at 31/05/2023 at 14:13 UTC
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I'm not sure you know how the internet works... You do realize anyone can create a very very simple scraper to log all comments etc without the need for any Reddit API key or support? It's just easier and more practical to do it with the API. What you choose to publicly say to the world isn't private. And the old adage that once something is on the Internet it's there forever is really true..
I could print out your comment and hang it on my wall and there's nothing you can do about it lol.