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Re:Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a... by detaro on Saturday July 13, 2019 @07:53PM (#20430839)
And "a fair amount of"developer time" is cheaper than serving more traffic? I'd be curious about actual numbers here, but I understand that's not necessarily something you can share.
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Re:Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a... by bdcravens on Saturday July 13, 2019 @08:21PM (#20430923)
I suspect most of that time isn't to reduce traffic costs, but to try to thwart their competitors
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