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Comment by xmcp123

7 hours ago

I write a lot of scrapers. Both of those are pretty trivial to bypass at scale.

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HDBaseT  5 hours ago

What about not at scale?

I find it wild that "at scale" we can bypass anti-bot measures, but just "normal" internet use (i.e Non-Google Browser or VPN) will throw a million captchas at you.

cgnat is pretty bad too.

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