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There are services that detect residential IPs being used for scraping nowadays. Plus there are other ways of detecting scraping: browser fingerprinting, aggres

• walrus01 5y ago
  Captcha solving services are a thing, can be as crude as something that takes a screenshot, sends an image to a click farm worker getting paid $300 a month sitting in a cubicle in Bangladesh. There's various captcha solving services where you pay in bulk per captcha and submit data via an api.
  • sparkling 5y ago
    Yup, such click farms exist. But driving up the costs and/or technical implementation efforts for bots/scrapers can be a part of your anti-bot strategy.
    • herbst 5y ago
      1000 captchas usually cost around a dollar or two. Honestly captchas never stopped me from anything.
• herbst 5y ago
  It's always just a question of detecting these things and code them in. It's like writing a game bot with Java robots and pixel detection. It may is inefficient, may takes longer to make than a network solution. But I have yet to be detected anywhere