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Comment by blell

1 day ago

Seems a mistake to disable the (I assume) faster-to-generate api. Bots will go back to scraping the website itself, increasing load.

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hi-wintermute  1 day 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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