• Yewb
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    02 years ago

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

    • Kichae
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      02 years ago

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

      • CoderKat
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        12 years 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).