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Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

LinkedIn tried blocking scraping that way but as long as the scraping isn't burdensome it's basically legal but you can still be bound by TOS and civil claims

https://natlawreview.com/article/hiq-and-linkedin-reach-proposed-settlement-landmark-scraping-case