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This seems like an anti-scraping measure to me, they are limiting how much content you can access on the site without an account?

Seems like if they did not have protections like this, another group of people would be complaining about easy FB makes it for nefarious actors to violate your privacy, etc. and how careless they are in not locking down access better.

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No because the first thing they do is to show you all of the content, ready to be scraped. Then they add their modal and then, after three reloads they store in your browser storage, they stops to show you the content.

So they don’t protect any data, they just leak it all. Then they hide it.

I think this is partially correct.

I hate the FU patterns as well, but there are so many lame aggregator sites scraping for viral content.

I would say FU patterns are: 80% trying to keep people in the walled garden ecosystem, 20% trying to make it hard for scrapers.

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