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fragmedetoday at 3:57 PM1 replyview on HN

They went login only in the wake of Hi-Q vs LinkedIn, which established that scraping a login-free site is legal.


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input_shtoday at 5:01 PM

Sure, it definitely didn't happen in the wake of its new owner feeling like it in one of his first major changes to the platform because of his "concerns" with bot traffic.

Luckily, he won that fight, and nowadays nobody thinks of bots when thinking of X, The Everything App.