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Comment by FireBeyond

6 years ago

It could be so easy to game this.

Table Column A, menu items, lowest to highest in cost.

Table Column B, prices, highest to lowest in cost.

Naive scraper associates rows as menu item and cost.

You use CSS, etc., to rearrange things correctly. People looking at your site get info as intended, scrapers have problems, and it's only a dark pattern to them.

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