Reddit CEO says Microsoft, Anthropic, and Perplexity need to pay to scrape the site’s data, and it has been “a real pain in the ass to block these companies” (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Alex Heath / The Verge:
Reddit CEO says Microsoft, Anthropic, and Perplexity need to pay to scrape the site's data, and it has been “a real pain in the ass to block these companies”  —  After striking deals with Google and OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site's data.