LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping," this is how you deal with a catastrophic loss of system capacity.

You limit data scraping by blocking things a human user couldn't do, like access a thousand posts a minute. This is aimed directly at reducing normal activity across the whole system.

@maxkennerly

it's a jerk reaction as it means that they don't have the skills to do a proper solution that that problem.

But it's also a lie as this is a self-inflicted DOS problem and they don't have the skills to fix that either.