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No casual browsing for you! (europe.pub)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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They login gated and banned the ability to criticize reddit on r/mildlyinfuriating. Reddit cucks

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[–] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

Im going to either get ignored, or downvoted to hell but...
Bot control.

Their site is the only source the website can be read/scraped and with the influx of ai scrapers ignoring all bot rules they might want to try and kill that.

I havent seen the pop up yet, nor checked out the html dom, but i suspect they, like any website, are getting a huge influx of ai bots doing terrabytes and terrabytes of data transfers

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I think they're also trying to pump up logged in unique visits for investors. They've been stagnant on those but non-logged in visits have been going up steadily. I think they're trying to convert a fraction of those visits into logged in accounts.

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