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minus-squaremelroy@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoInstead of blocking bots on user agent… I’m blocking full IP ranges: https://gitlab.melroy.org/-/snippets/619
minus-squarevinnymac@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 months agoIt 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.
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.