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View all comments Doesn’t all this do is encourage scraping which uses up more infrastructure?
Also RIP all the reddit bots. But they already got the n-word bot so there aren’t any useful ones anyways.
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Yup, not to mention an inevitable arms race between the scrapers and Reddit trying to ensure only humans are accessing the website leading to extremely convoluted capcha schemes. There’s a reason websites invented APIs to begin with.
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Le_Smugbot 99 upvotes
It looks like you typed “their,” did you mean to type “there?” 😏
Quite a few apps used to scrape off of compact Reddit (i.reddit.com) before Reddit shut it down.
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