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Re:Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scrapin... by ipsum2 on Monday December 22, 2025 @12:29PM (#46356300)
Anti scraping measures are making it more difficult to use the web. I can't load a single GitHub pull request without being accused of botting.
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Re:Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scrapin... by Aurornis on Monday December 22, 2025 @12:40PM (#46356420)
> I can't load a single GitHub pull request without being accused of botting.

The only time I encountered this was after a power outage when my ISP's DHCP server handed me a new IP that was tainted. It felt like every major website was suddenly full of captchas.

Eventually I had to unplug the router for 24 hours until the ISP let go of my DHCP reservation. When I reconnected it gave me a new IP and the problems went away.

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