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Cloudflare plans marketplace to sell permission to scrape websites (techcrunch.com)
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[โ€“] Justas 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine a company that sells a lot of products online. Now imagine a scraping bot coming at peak sales hours and looking at each product list and page separately for said service. Now realise that some genuine users will have a worse buying experience because of that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah there's way easier ways to combat that without trying to prevent scraping.

Maybe don't ship 20 units to the same address.