[scarab92]

I don't believe that distinction really exists anymore.

These days everyone is using real browsers and residential / mobile proxies, regardless of whether they are a spammer, or a Fortune 500, a retailer doing price comparison of an AI company looking for training data.

[immibis]

Random hackers making a website to RSS bridge aren't using residential / mobile proxies and real browsers in virtual machines. They're doing the simplest thing that works which is curl, then getting frustrated and quitting.

Spammers are doing those things because they get paid to make the spam work.