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by endymi0n 1690 days ago
> It's a cool problem to tackle but it is just an arms race.

Plus, it's one you're going to lose. I was once asked at an All-Hands why we don't defend ourselves against bots even more vigorously.

My answer was: "Because I don't know how to build a publically available website that I could not scrape myself if I really wanted to."