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		blell 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers Seems a mistake to disable the (I assume) faster-to-generate api. Bots will go back to scraping the website itself, increasing load.

hi-wintermute 18 days ago [–]

Setting the API to require a token and adding a honeypot to the pages themselves seems like a decent solution.

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