Comment by oasisbob

> It serves nobody except CloudFlare and hardware companies when one side set up blockers and the other side spend money putting VPN SDKs in consumer TVs

The problem with this perspective is that it ignores the victimization which is happening to all sorts of sites right now.

On one hand, you have content owners/suppliers which are trying to place restrictions on how much free bulk use is allowed.

When scrapers go to exotic lengths to evade the blocks, eg by using thousands of ephemeral IP addresses to collect an entire corpus, saying stuff like that makes it sound like it's all a wash.

"Oh, what a silly situation... How did we ever end up like this? It's not good for anyone ..."

No, there is a victim trying to defend themselves from rampant theft of resources, and a corporate asshole which doesn't care about the effects of their actions.