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Cloudflare plans marketplace to sell permission to scrape websites (techcrunch.com)
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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Again: hard to differentiate all those different bots, because you have to trust that they are what they say they are, and they often are not

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Instead of blocking bots on user agent.. I'm blocking full IP ranges: https://gitlab.melroy.org/-/snippets/619

[–] vinnymac@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It certainly can be a cat and mouse game, but scraping at scale tends to be ahead of the curve of the security teams. Some examples:

https://brightdata.com/

https://oxylabs.io/

Preventing access by requiring an account, with strict access rules can curb the vast majority of scraping, then your only bad actors are the rich venture capitalists.