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[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Ironically this API issue will kill bots, which was needed.

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

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

[-] 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.

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