AppoxotoTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·23 days agocross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zipCloudflare plans marketplace to sell permission to scrape websites(techcrunch.com)external-linkarrow-up1157arrow-down14message-square14fedilink
arrow-up1153arrow-down1external-linkCloudflare plans marketplace to sell permission to scrape websites(techcrunch.com)AppoxotoTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·23 days agocross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zipmessage-square14fedilink
minus-squaregaylord_fartmasterEnglisharrow-up50arrow-down0·23 days agolinkfedilinkThey’re already ignoring robots.txt, so I’m not sure why anyone would think they won’t just ignore this too. All they have to do is get a new IP and change their useragent.
minus-squareredditReallySucksEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down0·23 days agolinkfedilinkCloudflare is protecting a lot of sites from scraping with their POW captchas. They could allow people who pay
They’re already ignoring robots.txt, so I’m not sure why anyone would think they won’t just ignore this too. All they have to do is get a new IP and change their useragent.
Cloudflare is protecting a lot of sites from scraping with their POW captchas. They could allow people who pay