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

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

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

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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).

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

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