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Comment by josh-sematic

2 days ago

At that point you’re probably spending more money blocking the scrapers than you would spend just letting them through.

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lbhdc  2 days ago

That seems like it would make bot blocking saas (like cloudflare or tollbit) more attractive because it could amortize that effort/cost across many clients.

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