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by mindslight 1861 days ago
Apart from the caveat I gave regarding logins, there is simply no such thing as a bot or scraping "problem" for a web store. Your goal is to advertise what you are selling far and wide - bots are your friends. If you have problems with site load, the first thing to do is make your site more efficient. If you're a small operation and that still isn't enough, add generic server side throttling.