There was never any "official" 3rd party access to the API other than an "add article" action. And when the API was made available, it was only to subscribers s

There was never any "official" 3rd party access to the API other than an "add article" action. And when the API was made available, it was only to subscribers since the main revenue stream was sales of the official app. Since the official app is now free, that revenue stream doesn't need to be protected, and thus the API is now available to everyone.