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theamk on April 27, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: So you want to scrape like the big boys (2021)

.. and also annoys people with slow hardware while costing very little to serious scrapers?

How much CPU time can you burn so people on 3 year old phones can see it, and how much will it cost scrapers?

graemep on April 28, 2024 [–]

Even a very slight challenge is a problem for scrapers: they have to do it far more frequently.

Its better than captchas and whatever Cloudflare does in terms of overall nuisance.

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