[dgan]

Industry really went from "prove you are not a robot", to "but also if you are, this way please"

[raincole]

This is Cloudflare. They have an extremely strong incentive to increase bot usage. If there is no bot scrapping the internet they'll be out of business.

[dakolli]

I've been using cloudflares remote browser api to bypass their own WAFs for my scrapers for a while, their products and services have been wildly contradictory for a while.

[titularcomment]

This particular example is not contradictory if you think about it, its essentially a protection racket.

[zymhan]

I hate that I never considered this before.

[hansvm]

About goddamn time. The recent past consisted of discord blocking me because their telemetry was broken and exceeded their rate limit and target blocking me because two devices in a single household look really suspicious.

[skybrian]

I mean, Cloudflare will help website owners ban scrapers unless they pay. It’s kind of what they do.