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I have a theory that we'll get a lot more of these walls going up, not for onboarding users, but to sidestep the legal precedent for allowing webscraping that the LinkedIn case set. I want to say that the LinkedIn ruling hinged on the data being publicly accessible to anyone. If content shifts behind an account signup if imagine that's no longer the case. Can anyone with more knowledge in the area give more insight into this theory?


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