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Or some anti-ddos/bot companies using ultra cheap scraping services to annoy you enough to get you into their "free" anti bot protection, so they can charge the
by PeterStuer 10mo ago
Or some anti-ddos/bot companies using ultra cheap scraping services to annoy you enough to get you into their "free" anti bot protection, so they can charge the few real ai scrapers for access to your site.
- throw10920 10mo agoIs there any evidence that this has actually happened?
- zhengyi13 10mo agoEven if there isn't (yet?), there's probably someone who's honestly thinking this is potentially a viable business model and at least napkin-mathing it out.
- kstrauser 10mo agoMy napkin mathing is that their ROI would be negative. That's a lot of compute and bandwidth they'd have to pay for even if they were just throwing away the results.
- throw10920 10mo agoSo, it hasn't happened, and you're just making stuff up.