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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by matheusmoreira on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:41PM (#25216381)
That's a feature if you ask me. The whole point of scraping websites is to get the data I want while discarding noise like interface chrome and advertising directly to the garbage.

If they'd like me to pay for access, they should return HTTP 402 Payment Required instead of letting me download the page for free. Perhaps they could also rate limit the network connection to prevent denial of service. Why straight up block automated user agents though? That sucks.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by octoberfranklin on Thursday November 26, 2020 @03:05AM (#25217934)
> they should return HTTP 402 Payment Required

That's illegal.

They must first return HTTP 418 Know Your Customer Required.

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