Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay

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Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay
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Are they new posts or old ones? They are blocking new ones, not old ones.

new posts do not work

this post in /r/selfhosted is from 8hr ago: SWEKIT v0.1 - an open source library to build software engineering agents (DEVIN) in a agentic framework agnostic manner!

reddit/redlib: https://redlib.kylrth.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1eb86lf/swekit_v01_an_open_source_library_to_build/

doesn’t appear in DDG results: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Areddit.com+SWEKIT+v0.1+-+an+open+source+library+to+build+software+engineering+agents+%28DEVIN%29+in+a+agentic+framework+agnostic+manner%21&t=ffit

I tested and it got lots of reddit queries from even 2 years ago afaik.

They are blocking new ones, not old ones.

I even have diverse reddit queries from last week and even 2 years ago. this workaround is still ok tbh