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xtiansimon 37 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: My Feed, My Way

Does that include the social networks themselves? Essentially forcing APIs again?

armchairhacker 37 days ago [–]

Forcing APIs maybe wouldn't be bad, but shouldn't be necessary. It would be hard to enforce and the company could release convoluted APIs, which would be harder to regulate. Meanwhile, scrapers can publish a decent API.

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