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rendawtoday at 6:17 AM2 repliesview on HN

I think the simple explanation is that they weren't selling scraping countermeasures, they were selling web-based denial of service protection (which may be caused by scrapers).


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deweytoday at 1:33 PM

This was always also sold as bot protection and anti-scraping / crawling features like https://www.cloudflare.com/lp/pg-ai-crawl-control/

PeterStuertoday at 7:47 AM

Ask yourself, why would a scraper ddos? Why would a ddos-protection vendor ddos?

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