Shiddit.

Could indeed be a spearhead to open way for others not liking open access to information. And with Reddit making access ever harder, killing RSS, Old Reddit and anonymous browse, it would serve as scapegoat so the other possibility, acting on behalf of others, isn't theorized.

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SerpAPI, in contrast, is a tool which offers automated access to Google’s search engine results pages. It’s used by Perplexity, an AI-based search tool. Reddit sued to stop SerpAPI and Perplexity from bypassing Reddit’s own arrangement with Google. (Google brought a similar suit, which was dismissed by another court.)

reddit recently implimented a "bug"? on old reddit if you are trying to load collapsed comments, it wont load, or its loading indefinitely. it only worked while logging in.