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Re:AI scrapers request commented scripts by michaelt on Friday October 31, 2025 @03:51PM (#45776006)
> You require something the bot won't have that a human would.

Is this why the “open web” is showing me a captcha or two, along with their cookie banner and newsletter pop up these days?

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Re:AI scrapers request commented scripts by bigbuppo on Saturday November 01, 2025 @01:29PM (#45783509)
Up until people started making a big stink about CAPTCHAs being used for unpaid labor at scale, uh, well they had two purposes.
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