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Re:Preventing Site Scraping by rhizome on Thursday May 17, 2012 @07:14PM (#3989607)
In other words, "you can't puts ads on an API."
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Re:Preventing Site Scraping by jack-r-abbit on Thursday May 17, 2012 @07:18PM (#3989623)
That is true. I'm sure there are sites that don't provide an API for that reason. Ad revenue on the site might be what allows them to provide the data for free. But that wasn't what I was talking about.
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