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Demiurgeyesterday at 5:22 PM1 replyview on HN

What would you suggest as an alternative? Block the bots yourself ?


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inigyouyesterday at 7:40 PM

Yes. Any number of methods work. From requiring a cookie to requiring CSS to be loaded to a PoW to a JavaScript redirect. Most scraper bots are really dumb. If you do it cookie based, you can also put a poison link on every page that invalidates their cookie and starts returning poison on every page after that, so they're damned if they do and damned if they don't.

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