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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Sounds like Reddit has a skill issue.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Exactly spez forgot why they needed an api