[whoisjuan]

If you can access it programatically, then you can access it at scale which means you can quickly scrape content and replicate it somewhere else. Many business rely on a model where the data or information they generate is meant to be consumed by a human.

For example, Google temporarily bans your IP when you hit things like Google Play urls multiple times in a few minutes. This is clearly an attempt to block anyone but a human to extract information from the Play store.