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A comment on Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests. Parent comment

Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by brabel on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @05:38PM (#36219421)
If consuming their content by scraping was easy, nobody would be complaining about the APIs being taken away... it's very easy to make web scraping impractical if they want. Don't be deluded.
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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by dingledork69 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @07:46PM (#36220716)
The context of the thread is machine learning companies. You're delusional if you think they don't have a ton of web scrapers running 24/7 already.
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