> The logical conclusion of this entire arms race is that bots will eventually have no choice but to run actual browsers I think this is almost already the cas

> The logical conclusion of this entire arms race is that bots will eventually have no choice but to run actual browsers I think this is almost already the case now. Services like Cloudflare do a pretty good job of classifying primitive bots and if site operators want to block all (or at least vast majority), they can. The only reliable way through is a real browser. (Which does put a floor on resource needs for scraping)