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Bratmonyesterday at 11:40 PM2 repliesview on HN

By providing a way for corporate AI scrapers to operate with impunity and force the last few independently-run websites to move to the cloud?


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inigyoutoday at 11:04 AM

By providing a way for independent hackers to extract data from closed commercial websites.

BoorishBearstoday at 12:34 AM

No one's firing up a residential proxy to read your blog, and the corporate AI scrapers have all the resources in the world even without residential proxies

They're most useful for getting information from the cloud hosted sites that hoarde most of humanity's output today like Youtube and Reddit.

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