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by shubhamjain 1413 days ago
> Can you elaborate? I haven't run into any roadblocks yet but I'm not scraping big sites or sending a massive number of requests.

Cloudflare Bot Protection[1] is a popular one. The website is guarded by a layer of code that needs to be executed before continuing. Normal browsers will follow through. It can be hard to bypass.

[1]: https://www.cloudflare.com/pg-lp/bot-mitigation-fight-mode/

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I have a codebase that defeats cloudflare protection. Felt like I had keys to kingdom.
So that would break text browsers too, right? :(

And users with JS disabled for privacy reasons.