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Re:Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without get... by walrus01 on Sunday October 31, 2021 @08:10PM (#29061755)
Captcha solving services are a thing, can be as crude as something that takes a screenshot, sends an image to a click farm worker getting paid $300 a month sitting in a cubicle in Bangladesh.

There's various captcha solving services where you pay in bulk per captcha and submit data via an api.

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Re:Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without get... by sparkling on Sunday October 31, 2021 @08:13PM (#29061770)
Yup, such click farms exist. But driving up the costs and/or technical implementation efforts for bots/scrapers can be a part of your anti-bot strategy.
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Re:Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without get... by herbst on Monday November 01, 2021 @05:03AM (#29064391)
1000 captchas usually cost around a dollar or two. Honestly captchas never stopped me from anything.
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