I can never block reddit. My go-to workflow for buying any product is usually:
- Perplexity / Claude: "what are some good recommendations for ?"
- Skim what it writes, mentally note that it's probably extrapolating from little data on
- Scroll down to the sources, click on the Reddit ones.
- Check that the date is somewhat reasonably in the past (+3yrs is always good)
- Scroll to that one single comment that provides insightful feedback
This is why I never deleted my reddit accounts after I migrated -- I just couldn't throw away all of the hard written insightful comments I'd made there over ~15 years, and knew that an AI (and by extension future me) might find it beneficial.
(I'm not against AI, I'm against what capitalism is doing with AI)