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czk 46 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page...

make your only legit users mine fake crypto to access your site, only costs them 5% battery on an android device

econ 46 days ago [–]

They think scraping = money so you can just ask them to scrape (copy paste websites into a text area) and it will feel like payment.

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