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		pyrale on Nov 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All the data can be yours: reverse engineering API... On the defender side, it's much funnier to poison the data of identified scrapers than to immediately ban them. Let them work out that their data has been altered for a while, clean up their datasets, and work to understand what identifies them as scrapers.

TrickyRick on Nov 13, 2024 [–]

Definitely, but it's also a lot more complex to present credible looking false data than to simply reject a request.

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