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This article is a joke, all those methods of "protections" are a joke. What we called "script kiddys" and are now a major amount of so called developers are jus
by _o_ 9y ago
This article is a joke, all those methods of "protections" are a joke. What we called "script kiddys" and are now a major amount of so called developers are just underdeveloped lamers who just don't know that the fight is lost in advance. All the methods that you take are useless when you get into situation of scraper run by someone who is able to modify (oh and is able to code in c/c++) and recompile the client side. The world went into Idiocracy so much that methods are beeing invented by people who are so narrow minded that they see the development in a scope of a browser and have a false sense that they "can handle it". Only if the oponent is as narrow minded as they are. Only than. I can modify the source code of chromium, you will get back exactly what you expect from regular user, i am able to scrape fb and linkedin and the only thing they can do is to slow me down (to hide the fact that the code is doing surfing, not human). Stop wasting your time on protection, you are running your inneficient crappy code in insecure environment, the only "attacker" you are safe against is the one who is as clueless as you are.
The same moment when you send content to the client, it is game over. You have lost all control.
I am sorry for all non-gentle sentences here, but we had developers who were able to decompile asm code and patch it to avoid drms, while now sandboxed idiots are thinking, they are smart. The whole dev. environment became toxic =/ And people are just to stupid to understand how stupid they are =/
- xfer 9y agoHarsh words; but very true that the developers don't realize the chromium is open-source.. maybe they should just jump to the new drm extension, atleast that will challenge the dedicated scrapers.
- mykull 9y agoThis is pretty broad criticism, but you are at least right that there is no sound principle on which to protect a website from "automated" interaction.