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Only the GET requests are metered. An anti-bot/anti-AI scraper measure?

Maybe some kind of anti-fraud measure too?

So much spam would go away if we just charged $1 per 5000 emails. Normal humans would be fine. Mailing lists would need charge, but it would be minimal for most useful mailing lists.

Maybe Amazon is going after some fraud?

They probably want to remove pricing transparency.

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