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by chewmieser 1690 days ago
Like everyone and their brother has a web spider. And some of them are VERY badly designed. We block them when they use too many resources, although we'd rather just let them be.

Can't speak for the op but we have APIs and move the ones scraping and reselling our content to APIs. The majority are just a worthless suck on resources though.