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Re:Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy by PestoDiRucola on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:34AM (#25303378)
You can easily block a harmful scraper like that from the website owner's side.
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Re:Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy by kingdomcome50 on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:47PM (#25307692)
You make the target. I’ll make the bot. Let’s see who wins.

In all seriousness, your suggestion is woefully naive in the face of any serious entity.

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Re:Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy by notahaterbut on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:44AM (#25303530)
what if the scraper uses ip rotation or serverless workers ?
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