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A large reason why virtually all modern web stores suck as much as they do is the insane amount of bot bullshit they need to deal with. Most storefronts are de
by marginalia_nu 3y ago
A large reason why virtually all modern web stores suck as much as they do is the insane amount of bot bullshit they need to deal with.
Most storefronts are designed more or less as an obstacle course to make any sort of scraping or automated retrieval more obvious, this includes having beyond useless filters, having no working search function, having nebulous item names, paginating with 4 items at a time, etc.
- wkat4242 3y agoWhy stop bots though. Price comparison sites are amazingly useful.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoCompetitors use them to ever so slightly undercut your prices, get a higher position on said comparison sites, and run you out of business.
- yunwal 3y agoIf you aren’t on comparison sites at all because of your anti-scraping measures, is that better?
- flotzam 3y agoNot to defend the practice but I think the intent is to allow scraping (or API access) only by the price comparison site but not by competitors. (Why wouldn't the competitors then just scrape the price comparison site? Because that site also has anti-scraping measures in place...)