Developer vents over walled gardens: Reddit blocks LLMs, Gemini won't quote, Claude refuses
RexDouglass · x · 2026-11-04
Developer josephhgarvin vents about the walled-garden mess in AI tooling: Reddit blocks all LLMs except Gemini due to its Google contract; asking Gemini for matching posts gets quotes blocked by Google; asking Claude to fetch via a headless browser gets refused on "safety" grounds. The thread captures how layered restrictions are stalling legitimate research workflows.
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