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0 pointstimtom12310mo ago0 comments

This exactly, having ran very large scraping operations, it only takes a slight increase in cost to make it unprofitable for many use cases.

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Right, scale is solved… but not at all targeted “attacks”.

If some site uses this and I only want that site as an attacker or as a personal scraper or etc, this is keenly ineffective at proving human vs bot.

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0 pointstimtom12310mo ago0 comments

This exactly, having ran very large scraping operations, it only takes a slight increase in cost to make it unprofitable for many use cases.

Right, scale is solved… but not at all targeted “attacks”.

If some site uses this and I only want that site as an attacker or as a personal scraper or etc, this is keenly ineffective at proving human vs bot.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse