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Re:Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every... by osrec on Friday February 08, 2019 @12:51PM (#19116788)
Not really. We have scraped many sites successfully that try this randomisation logic. There is always a pattern, which often can be determined via heuristics. It does make things trickier, but not impossible or especially difficult.
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Re:Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every... by Novashi on Friday February 08, 2019 @01:21PM (#19117111)
It feels like the point is just to raise the difficulty for script kiddies.

After all, there’s always headless browsers and OCR

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Re:Facebook adds 5 divs, 9 spans and 30 CSS classes to every... by osrec on Friday February 08, 2019 @01:24PM (#19117138)
Yeah, it's a bit pointless really. If you're going to put data on the open web, you should be prepared for it to be copied.
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