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Would IPv6 addresses mean scraping would be easier?

• andrewpe 11y ago
  What do you mean scraping?
  • runarb 11y ago
    > What do you mean scraping? Web scraping. It is the process of using software to automaticly extract information from websites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping
  • moreati 11y ago
    Almost certainly they mean web scraping - making automated requests to websites and extracting/parsing data. It's used for e.g. getting prices/specifications of entire product catalog, or for duplicating a database that's only published in HTML.
• vially 11y ago
  I don't think it will. Even though most providers offer IPv6 addresses in /64 blocks, the services you might want to scrape will consider any request coming from the same /64 IPv6 block as coming from the same user.
  • elktea 11y ago
    /56 seems to be the most common, with a few people still advocating for /48s for all connections.