Hostile forges will help though, unless the forge gets big enough. Scrapers (SEO bots included) tend to only have a handful of "corner cases" built for navigat

Hostile forges will help though, unless the forge gets big enough. Scrapers (SEO bots included) tend to only have a handful of "corner cases" built for navigating sites - if your code forge is actively trying to prevent scraping it could help prevent quite a lot. Your choices remain important, even if it's not foolproof.