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It might be desirable to make data available to humans, but not bots, no?
by pingswept 11y ago
It might be desirable to make data available to humans, but not bots, no?
- atemerev 11y agoOK, how about hiring hordes of cheap human scrapers from Mechanical Turk? Everything visible can and will be scraped if need arises, the only variable is price.
- Retra 11y agoYou're making a distinction that, if you were to actually explain it in a way that makes sense, would reveal a much more relevant solution to this problem. What's the difference between a machine scraper and a human scraper? Humans use machines to access websites. All your users are machines. And behind every machine is a human. If you don't want someone to access all your data in a short time-frame, then don't give it all away in a short time-frame.