'Pokémon Go' dev says it needed to block scrapers to expand

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Niantic Labs is still facing backlash from some players over blocking many third-party

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services, but

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. In a

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it provided a graph (without any numbers) that it says shows how much traffic dropped off after it blocked many scraper services. It says that "freeing up those resources" is what enabled it to launch in Central and South America earlier this week, and blamed scrapers for

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in the first place.

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