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Most sellers who are on Amazon platform give Amazon that information and a lot more, knowing full well Amazon will use their sales data to launch an Amazon Basics competitior.

It is a sane business approach when you are a pragmatic business who knows the limits that constrain your business.

Either the content company is going to build a simple API (could be just a static CSV file hosted on S3 or whatever) with useful information or try to monetize/hide this information and force scapers to use the website .

A bot is always going to win unless you want to make users also a lot of friction. In the era of deepfakes and fairly robust AI tooling the difference between bot action and humann action is not all that much.

If you are going to be agressive with captcha , IP blocks and other fingerprinting, users who get identified false positive.or annpyed would leave.

When the cost of losing those users is more than allowing access to scrapers,you would absolutely setup the API.