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[-] Yewb@kbin.social 44 points 1 year ago

It will only slow them temporarily you don't need api for bots

[-] Kichae@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it'll only kill the useful ones in the long run.

[-] CoderKat@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah. The unethical bots will just use scrapers, as they already do for the many websites that don't offer APIs. They're already violating ToS, so they don't care. Ethical ones won't have that option (at least not past the fairly low quota).

[-] troybot@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

Correct. Now the bots will be constantly scraping the pages of every post which will be a much bigger burden on their servers.

[-] Skray@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

It's funny, years ago websites switched to openly available APIs specifically to lessen server burden because of bots. Now they're swapping away from APIs because of bots, but those bots are just gonna go back to scraping.

[-] cptapathetic@rustyshackleford.cfd 16 points 1 year ago

Sounds like Reddit has a skill issue.

[-] Yewb@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Exactly spez forgot why they needed an api

[-] ErraticDragon@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

From my understanding, they already aren't using the API.

If the spam bots were using the API, then Reddit would have been able to shut them down trivially. Part of logging in via API requires a "client ID" that uniquely identifies the creator of the app/bot being used.

They could theoretically have each bot account create its own client ID, but even that would be a pretty obvious thing to look for.

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