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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    That’s a ridiculous amount of effort to go through to slow down a scraper for one site, especially when that site could just be… turned off.

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        8 months ago

        Then it still makes no sense, as you being unable to take down the content means you also very likely can’t edit the content. I can’t think of a situation where you:

        1. Need content to not be scraped
        2. Need time to remove/edit that content
        3. Have access to do the above
        4. Don’t have access to pull the content immediately
        5. Have control of a large enough botnet to take down Internet Archive
        6. Don’t have a big enough botnet to take down the aforementioned content