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So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe (www.cole-k.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 47 points 2 months ago (1 child)

The scraping wouldn't be a problem if Reddit simply provided an RSS feed or other data-efficient API

That's simply not true. These bots are essentially DDOSing the entire internet, API or not.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago

    Okay, if efficient APIs existed and they weren't incompetently failing to use them, it wouldn't be a problem. Happy now?

    (I should've addressed that in my previous comment, as I was aware of how one of the Lemmy instances was taken down by scrapers the other day despite the fact that they could easily get all the content simply by consuming ActivityPub directly. But I was naively hoping it wouldn't be necessary because, as you can see from this text, it would've cluttered up my writing with double the words.)

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