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by greenyoda 1650 days ago
This is a clever hack. However, I'm guessing that if the coupon sites you're scraping notice a lot of scraping activity, they'll start hiding the coupons behind CAPTCHAs to block the scrapers.
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I think the coupon sites make money as affiliates, so as long as the affiliate code stays in the URL, scraping tools would increase the chance the coupon sites see affiliate revenue.

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