[TrickyRick]

It's not exactly neither hard nor expensive to buy a residential IP proxy services to get around that.

[pyrale]

On the defender side, it's much funnier to poison the data of identified scrapers than to immediately ban them. Let them work out that their data has been altered for a while, clean up their datasets, and work to understand what identifies them as scrapers.

[TrickyRick]

Definitely, but it's also a lot more complex to present credible looking false data than to simply reject a request.