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Prolonged protests put Reddit at crossroads with ad revenue (www.campaignasia.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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After two weeks of demonstrations, some media buyers anticipate Reddit turning to alternative revenue streams.

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[–] cubism_pitta 7 points 1 year ago

It's just the way a large data gathering project works. If you want to get data from 100s of sites a scraper is universal and can work for all while using an API would require (assuming all the sites HAVE an API) custom code for each.