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unixbane | 3 years ago

And it's an invalid point. Scraping prevention is the most stupid thing Cloudflare has ever done, and that's after a very long list.

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simondotau|3 years ago

It’s not an invalid point. Setting aside Government and business services, you aren’t morally entitled to clean, uninterrupted access to any random website. If a webmaster chooses to make your life difficult for any reason, that’s entirely their prerogative.

unixbane|3 years ago

I'm saying anti-scraping is a misconception and if you buy it (or get one for free) you just paid for a placebo and it's also worse than nothing. Is there anything confusing about this?