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Re:American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-t... by s_q_b on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:33AM (#7532016)
Is it bad that I'm just as insulted by the so-called "spider trap"? It's so technologically simple as to be useless against anyone who could deploy a web scraper in the first place.

I mean, it's marked by comment tags that say "spider trap" right on them! Its the worst type of disambiguation system: likely to generate false positives, unlikely to catch real violators.

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Re:American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-t... by PavlovsCat on Friday April 04, 2014 @03:00PM (#7533549)
Yet the off-the-shelf bots that are just let loose on the web in general will likely fall for it, as long as the "spider trap" is not off-the-shelf itself; and the ones actually targetted at just you you likely can't defeat anyway.
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