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A few have registration requirements, but it’s usually something banal like “say I agree in Spanish to prove your Spanish enough for this instance” etc.
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I was referring to some of the larger players in the space, ie Meta, Twitter, etc.
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Doesn't matter if they're shit or not, they don't want bots crawling their sites, straining their resources, or constantly shit posting, but they do anyway. And if the billion dollar corporations can't stop them, it's probably a good bet that you can't either.
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