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Comment by inigyou

2 months ago

Scrapers generally aren't looking for random websites to scrape. They have a specific URL in mind. Only if the goal was DDoS would they not care which URL was accessed.

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promano  2 months ago

They also don't care which URL was accessed when the goal is scraping as much text as possible for AI training.

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