That's on food and consumable household stuff. I imagine some people do all of that shopping through Amazon. But on average?

It's almost as if this isn't about scraping and more about shutting down a "free article sharing" channel that gets abused all the time.

I should clarify that the "applications" I write are usually command line tools. I don't think I've ever written a full working GUI application, although now with AI I bet it would be fast and easy to bang something together.

Or when the gov du jour is for sale, they can do whatever they want because they and their CEO can afford just about any price.

It's saving face. It lets them bail out without actually badmouthing Flock or any related companies, which, yes, lets them do it again later.