Re:Scrape like the big boys
by TeMPOraL on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:50PM
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> the basic fact is most if not all websites exist for human eyeballs to look at them.
There's a whole ethical subthread here of websites trying to making the experience for those humans miserable, and taking away the agency necessary to protect oneself from that. A browser is a user agent. So is a screen reader. So is a script one writes to not deal with bullshit fluff, when all one wants is a simple table of products, features and prices.
There's a whole ethical subthread here of websites trying to making the experience for those humans miserable, and taking away the agency necessary to protect oneself from that. A browser is a user agent. So is a screen reader. So is a script one writes to not deal with bullshit fluff, when all one wants is a simple table of products, features and prices.