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That’s a fair point. I’ve always assumed it was a form of rate-limiting, but you’re right, that’ll be part of their analytics at least
I can see the argument from both sides... and maybe both is true. I think the same could be said about twitter... having to login to read tweets means they can easily track who looks at what... which is very valuable information to a lot of people with money.