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Comment by mewpmewp2

2 days ago

By that logic you could just make your website in general load slower to make scraping harder.

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Almondsetat  2 days ago

No, because in this case there are cookies involved. If the scraper accepts cookies then it's trivial to detect it and block it. If it doesn't, it will have to solve the challenge every single time.

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