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Saying that Anti-bot software is nonsense is like saying that door locks are snake oil too. We've all seen Lockpicking Lawyer on Youtube opening with ease any lock out there, so how come that all of us haven't got robbed yet? Well, because protection is not a binary thing - either being 100% safe or 100% not working - instead it's a proportion between the skill/effort/time needed to break in, and the reward you get for it. To stop majority of attacks you don't have to be absolutely unbreakable, you just need to make it hard enough for majority of attackers so that it doesn't payout for them compared to the value of the data you're protecting. And that's where anti-bot SW has it's place, it slows done spiders and global attacks, forcing for custom tailored scraping that is constantly being fine-tuned, infrastructure to hide your IPs, and that makes the operation way more expensive and harder to run continuously...