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Cloudflare plans marketplace to sell permission to scrape websites
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this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
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Instead of blocking bots on user agent.. I'm blocking full IP ranges: https://gitlab.melroy.org/-/snippets/619
It certainly can be a cat and mouse game, but scraping at scale tends to be ahead of the curve of the security teams. Some examples:
https://brightdata.com/
https://oxylabs.io/
Preventing access by requiring an account, with strict access rules can curb the vast majority of scraping, then your only bad actors are the rich venture capitalists.