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dgantoday at 5:58 AM3 repliesview on HN

Industry really went from "prove you are not a robot", to "but also if you are, this way please"


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hansvmtoday at 6:21 AM

About goddamn time. The recent past consisted of discord blocking me because their telemetry was broken and exceeded their rate limit and target blocking me because two devices in a single household look really suspicious.

raincoletoday at 8:20 AM

This is Cloudflare. They have an extremely strong incentive to increase bot usage. If there is no bot scrapping the internet they'll be out of business.

skybriantoday at 6:25 AM

I mean, Cloudflare will help website owners ban scrapers unless they pay. It’s kind of what they do.