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It’s not an invalid point. Setting aside Government and business services, you aren’t morally entitled to clean, uninterrupted access to any random website. If
by simondotau 4y ago
It’s not an invalid point. Setting aside Government and business services, you aren’t morally entitled to clean, uninterrupted access to any random website. If a webmaster chooses to make your life difficult for any reason, that’s entirely their prerogative.
- unixbane 4y agoI'm saying anti-scraping is a misconception and if you buy it (or get one for free) you just paid for a placebo and it's also worse than nothing. Is there anything confusing about this?
- simondotau 4y agoIf it's a misconception, why did you complain that Cloudflare caused you "a really hard time making a web scraper"?
- unixbane 4y agoYou just confused me with someone else. Cloudflare gives me a hard time as a user only. When you view a page with a proxy or shared IP address, you have to solve a captcha or enable JS to see any text with @ in it, and such insanities. Scraping is a user use case. Web crap is meant to be automateable and automatically navigible (though as a cattle user who sees it as an interactive one time experience, like someone walking into a shop, I can see how you see otherwise). Anyway it's easy to scrape even with Cloudflare, it just causes more bumps and adds to your fingerprint and makes the internet as a whole more insecure.
- vntok 4y agoI don't want you scraping my sites, and I can see the hundred of thousands of requests from scrapers/bots blocked by Cloudflare. Seems like it works here.