[jeroenhd]

That's what's being done, isn't it? Fingerprinting technologies and proof of work are trying to authorize people and block bots. Unfortunately, companies like these are trying to bypass the authorization controls.

If these scraping companies would respect some kind of X-Scraping-Permitted header, this whole process would be a lot better, but that's not going to happen in an industry that has already normalized using botnets.