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Comment by bootlooped

6 years ago

I'm not sure I would call a scraper crappy if it was fooled by a site deliberately designed to fool it. It would be like calling somebody's vision crappy if they were fooled by an optical illusion.

Scraping can be an adversarial exercise, but not typically in that manner.

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