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vachinatoday at 6:29 AM2 repliesview on HN

CORS is amazing for when you want to prevent people from (easily) stealing your bandwidth and hosting resources. Thieves have to stand up their own proxies, which makes them very easily blocked.


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trick-or-treattoday at 7:03 AM

I think you're confused. The only thing blocked would be client side fetch. You need to find another way to protect everything else.

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inigyoutoday at 8:33 AM

How's it going with AI scrapers for you

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