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evolve2k on Sept 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing the 4chan API

Regarding financial sustability, have you thought about charging for the new API?

joethompson on Sept 5, 2012 [–]

I'm sure this is about trying to improve site performance, and charging for it would inevitably cause everyone to continue scraping the HTML, thus defeating the point.

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