> The moment you post to reddit, they can do anything they want with the content. It is now theirs. This is patently false. The content is not theirs, users gr

> The moment you post to reddit, they can do anything they want with the content. It is now theirs. This is patently false. The content is not theirs, users grant Reddit a license to their content. See the TOS [1] you spoke of: > You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content: This isn't just some bit of semantics either. If you can contact the users, you could request a license for the content yourself. So really the only bastion Reddit has is technical measures for preventing scraping, since publicly accessible data is allowed to be scraped in the US due to legal precedent. That is, nothing in the TOS prevents other parties from displaying the data in other formats (as long as they don't use the API). The thing is, all the apps did make use of the API because they were not adversarial with Reddit, as opposed to webapps like libreddit that circumvent the API altogether. [1]: https://redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement https://redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement