Re:Ask HN: "Creative" ways to handle abusive http traffic?
by bmpafa on Saturday May 26, 2018 @03:53PM
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(GP here) re: the second part, I guess I consider most scraping 'unwelcome'
To the first part: I would characterize certain scraping, usually behind an authentication wall, as malicious--though admittedly that's not the right word. An example would be scraping Facebook profiles to build a marketing list.
So, by 'non malicious,' i mostly mean 'publicly available data'
To the first part: I would characterize certain scraping, usually behind an authentication wall, as malicious--though admittedly that's not the right word. An example would be scraping Facebook profiles to build a marketing list.
So, by 'non malicious,' i mostly mean 'publicly available data'