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I can't use mouser or digikey anymore thanks to anti-crawler crusading.

• opan 1y ago
  I have always gotten the short end of the stick with this stuff as well. Captchas are annoying, Cloudflare challenges are usually not passable, etc. For some sites I use regularly, they'll log me out and stop me logging in a few times per year and then I have to tweet at them about it, which is usually followed by something about them having just turned up their bot protection settings, but then often they'll fix whatever they did and I can get back in. Would it be so crazy to just let it happen? When ordinary users are suffering as much or more than the "criminal" targets, maybe it's not worth it. I understand there are cases where bandwidth usage would become too much, but there's gotta be a better way. Maybe let some bots through so that fewer humans are blocked.
• sethops1 1y ago
  Blame the people shitting in the pool. Not the people closing down the pool because people keep shitting in it.