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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by olliej on Thursday February 02, 2023 @03:32PM (#34632548)
Accessibility is not a by cost thing, and you aren't paying to break accessibility, you're paying to break scraping and maintaining accessibility when doing so costs money. It also requires having engineers working to keep the site accessible, but musk fired them.
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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by dzhiurgis on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:13PM (#34633133)
Scraping is much easier when sites are more accessible.
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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by olliej on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:09PM (#34634597)
Correct, which is why making something accessible and not scrapeable is harder/more expensive than breaking accessibility.
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