• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    If they already, essentially, cut off API access then it’s not a big leap to limit access on the web to logged in users only and rate limit or ban accounts that behave like scrapers.

    • Verserk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 months ago

      That would matter more if it wasn’t trivial to make new accounts and very cheap to buy established ones.