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Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ruffsl@programming.dev to c/technology

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[–] hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest 1 points 1 year ago

Most likely. API access is actually the preferential way of handling things because the alternative (scraping) requires more server resources.

If a company offers a free tier of their API (even if it’s insufficient) it is unlikely they’re friendly to scrapers.

Recently Reddit opened up devvit as a way for redditors to build approved internal bots but it didn't seem like they intended to staff a team to build replacements any time soon