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Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits (techcrunch.com)
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[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Web crawling has always worked through raw HTTP/HTML parsing, why create site specific API calls that require authentication and are throttled.

This excuse is pure bullshit.